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A Breeding Ground? Markets in China selling live animals could be SARS link
NewsDay.com ^
| April 23, 2003, 9:21 AM EDT
| Laurie Garrett
Posted on 04/23/2003 9:19:34 AM PDT by Gritty
Guangzhou, China - Here, at the epicenter of the disease known as SARS, dinner can be bought live at a "wet market."
Just outside the banking and commercial center of the capital of Guangdong Province stretches a wide, congested boulevard lined with machine shops, auto parts vendors and industrial parts outlets. Delivery trucks, lumbering buses and darting taxis vie for position.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animals; guangdong; guangzhou; lauriegarrett; market; sars
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To: Gritty
Well thanks Gritty for sharing this with me.
I really dont want to fix dinner tonight!
Could the massive digging for the enormous dam,I think its called "Three Rivers Gorge " have uncovered some high strangeness?
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04/23/2003 2:56:48 PM PDT
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Betty Jo
To: aristeides
I'm having flashbacks to my predictions of flamethrowers in biohaz suits when Bin Laden and Homeland Security started.
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04/23/2003 3:03:38 PM PDT
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Betty Jo
To: Gritty
Sounds like animal trade day at the First Monday in Ripley, Mississippi. It is not uncommon for diseases that are endemic in the animal population to be dispersed at animal trade days and sales. As another poster mentioned, we are in for this sort of viral mutation every twenty years or so. Every once in awhile, the disease is significant and causes a plague.
To: Betty Jo
I really dont want to fix dinner tonight!... at least, a Chinese dinner!
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04/23/2003 4:46:54 PM PDT
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Gritty
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