RESOUR> [NetGold] COUNTRIES: CHINA : ANIMALS : MEDICAL: DISEASES: SARS: Civet Cats Lives in China Shortened by SARS Fear

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:23:46 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [NetGold] COUNTRIES: CHINA : ANIMALS : MEDICAL: DISEASES: SARS:
     Civet Cats Lives in China Shortened by SARS Fear

COUNTRIES: CHINA : ANIMALS : MEDICAL: DISEASES: SARS: Cives Cats Lives in
China Shortened by SARS Fear

SARS Scapegoat? China Slaughtering Civet Cats
Stefan Lovgren in Los Angeles
for National Geographic News
January 9, 2003
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0109_040109_SARS.html>

After a new case of Severe Acute Respiratory Disease, SARS, was confirmed
in China earlier this week, officials there ordered the widespread culling
of civets, weasel-like mammals that have been linked to the transmission
of the virus.

<snip>

While some health officials warn the slaughter of civets could destroy
important clues about how the virus is transmitted, some wildlife
conservationists charge that eliminating whole species may actually
destroy natural buffers to the spread of viruses between animals and
humans.

They warn that infectious and previously unknown diseases will continue to
proliferate as human populations expand and venture further into wild
habitats. Instead of vilifying wildlife and eliminating species, the
conservationists say, the focus should be on preventing transmissions.

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SARS link: China culls civet cats
Suspected case in the Philippines
Monday, January 5, 2004 Posted: 1:19 AM EST (0619 GMT)
<http://www1.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/04/sars/>

BEIJING, China -- The government plans to cull 10,000 civet cats in
wildlife markets after tests suggest a link to a possible SARS case, state
television reports.

Civets are considered a delicacy in wild game restaurants in southern
China.

The announcement Monday came after researchers at Hong Kong University
said they found similarities between a virus found in the cats and in a
suspected SARS patient in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.

They suggested the virus may have come from civets and the sale of the
animals should be banned.

"We will take resolute measures to close all the wildlife markets in
Guangdong and to kill the civet cats," Feng Liuxiang, deputy director of
the province's health department, said Monday on the national noon
newscast of China Central Television.

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14:09 AEDT Fri 16 Jan 2004
WHO links animals to SARS
<http://news.ninemsn.com.au/Health/story_47996.asp>

AP - World Health Organization investigators found "good evidence" to
suggest that animals play a role in SARS, uncovering traces of the virus
in the restaurant where a patient worked and civet cats were served, the
team's leader said.

But Dr Robert Breiman also said that SARS should not be considered an
immediate public health threat in China - a reassurance pivotal in its
timing, days before hundreds of millions of people begin travelling around
the country for the Chinese New Year.

Breiman also said it was possible that rodents played a role in spreading
severe acute respiratory syndrome.

"There isn't conclusive proof, but it's very plausible that rodents do
have a role," Breiman said at a news conference.

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China electrocutes cats to fight SARS
Last Updated Tue, 06 Jan 2004 17:05:00
GUANGZHOU, CHINA - Chinese officials began drowning and electrocuting
hundreds of civet cats in an effort to wipe out a possible source of the
deadly SARS virus.
<http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/01/06/sarschina040106>

The slaughter follows China's first confirmed case of SARS since the
disease was contained in July.
On Monday, the Chinese Health Ministry confirmed that a 32-year-old
television producer in the southern province of Guangdong contracted the
contagious disease. Officials say the man has fully recovered and is
expected to leave the hospital on Thursday.

Chinese media said the civets and other animals were being lowered in
cages into vats of water, and being burned and electrocuted.

China ordered about 10,000 civet cats destroyed after new genetic tests
suggested a link to SARS. China has pledged to complete the slaughter by
Saturday.

All wild-animal markets in the southern province of Guangdong were closed
to prevent possible spread of the deadly virus.

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