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Cat-eaters may get, spread SARS

November 12, 2003 By Merritt Clifton

  GUANGZHOU––Laboratory studies of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome directed by virologist Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam,  published in the October 30,  2003 edition of the British journal Nature,  demonstrate that cats and ferrets could potentially carry SARS from filthy live markets to humans. Osterhaus said his experimental goal was simply to […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Dogs & cats, Food & agriculture, Wildlife Tagged With: civets, live markets, Merritt Clifton, SARS

SARS spread from live markets, but when?

October 12, 2003 By Merritt Clifton

  BEIJING––Blood tests indicate that about 1% of the children in 17 provinces of China were exposed to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome before the outbreaks of 2002-2003 that hit 24 of the 31 provinces. Evidently passing from animals sold in filthy live markets to humans working in food preparation,  and then spreading from human to […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Food & agriculture, Wildlife Tagged With: live markets, Merritt Clifton, SARS

SARS shuts live markets, may change Chinese menus

June 12, 2003 By Merritt Clifton

           HONG KONG––Animals sold in the live markets of Guangdong province,  China,  suffered first and worst from the conditions that afflicted the world with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic of the past nine months––but Asian animal defenders are hopeful that a legacy of the epidemic may be the end of live markets for […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, China, Food & agriculture, Wildlife Tagged With: Guangdong, live markets, Merritt Clifton, SARS

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