[blam]

Ping.

[riri]

People with one gene variant (HLA-B 0703) were four times more likely to contract the deadly disease than average. In contrast, people with another variant (HLA-DRB1 0301) were more likely to resist SARS infection

Interesting, I wonder if it more prevalent in some ethnic groups over others?

[riri]

Liu may have caught the virus from a rat he removed from his apartment shortly before falling ill. Ten per cent of the rats in Liu's building have now been found to carry the virus, says Zhong. But all the civets tested carried it, so Zhong feels they are the ultimate source. "We must stop rearing, selling and eating civets," he says.

That doesn't sound very good. Not good at all.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Restaurant cages. Isn't it better to have the butcher off-site?

[OXENinFLA]

*******Found In Restaurant Animal Cages

yummmm.

[Cicero]

It's VERY worrying that SARS has moved into the rat population. They can stop people eating civet cats, maybe, but what are they going to do about rats spreading the disease? It's been long established that rats are too clever and too widespread to exterminate, no matter how hard you try. They are the perfect disease spreaders, as the black plague thoroughly demonstrated in 1348.

[Free Trapper]

IIRC,there was a very good article on the Pacific News Service on Jan.1,04.I don't post articles but it was called "China's Dangerous Wild Tastes".

The article explains why it would be very difficult to stop the wild animal trade in East Asia.There's too much money to be made in the trade(worldwide)for "someone" not to supply it.

[Tacis]

I make it a point to never eat in a restaurant where the waitor minces up to me and says, "Hi, I'm Bruce and I'll be your sever this evening. The chef has prepared sveral specials and the main courses are in those cages over by the plasma TV. Can I start you off with one of our specialty appetizers?"

[HighWheeler]

""We must stop rearing, selling and eating civets," he says."

Well, there goes my Memorial Day weekend plans.