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China Confirms Case, Begins Civet Cat Cull



 
 
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Old January 5th 04, 10:34 PM
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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.

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Old January 6th 04, 06:15 PM
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Yngver wrote:

Of course, I also think that killing 450 calves because the investigators can't
figure out which one is the calf of the cow that was found to be infected with
mad cow disease is horrible too.


But at least with the calves you are not killing off a wild animal in
hopes of making it extinct.

Alice

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Old January 6th 04, 06:15 PM
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Yngver wrote:

Of course, I also think that killing 450 calves because the investigators can't
figure out which one is the calf of the cow that was found to be infected with
mad cow disease is horrible too.


But at least with the calves you are not killing off a wild animal in
hopes of making it extinct.

Alice

--
The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't
worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev
|\ _,,,---,,_ Tigress
/,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ http://havoc.gtf.gatech.edu/tigress
|,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-'
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat by Felix Lee.
 




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