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China Confirms Case, Begins Civet Cat Cull
(Reuters) - China confirmed on Monday its first SARS case since a world
epidemic was declared over in July, and began a mass slaughter of civet
cats on fears a new strain of the deadly virus may have jumped from wild
animals to humans. Health officials in the southern province of
Guangdong said a virus gene sample from the SARS patient -- a
32-year-old television producer -- resembled that of a coronavirus found
in civet cats, a Chinese culinary delicacy.