Shenzhen chef's taste for exotic animals may be to blame (for SARS)

The Standard ^ | May 9, 2003

[Cicero]

Good grief. It sounds like Marlon Brando in "The Freshman."

[ClearCase_guy]

I saw in the paper yesterday that some doctors in China are treating SARS with cow urine and melons.

Got a real sophisticated country over there.

[RosieCotton]

Good grief. It sounds like Marlon Brando in "The Freshman."

Heh...that was my first thought, too.

Bizarre.

[tracer]

Hot and SARS soup? General Tsao's Owl? Har-Hok Lungh? Moo-shoo Trachea of Tiger; Hot and SARS Rhesus Pieces?

Sounds like an appropriate time for won ton abandon.....

[Dog Gone]

treating SARS with cow urine and melons

Well, they get high marks for creativity, I guess. That's not a medical treatment I ever would have thought of.

[The Pheonix]

saw a documentary about AIDS, about 10 years ago, where a European doctor also speculated that AIDS was originally a virus found in monkeys ( of course the virus and monkey co-exists for 10000 years without hurting the monkeys)

Suspect that this virus cross over to humans when Africans in Africa eat monkey meat

[aristeides]

Where is Shenzhen?

If SARS came out of a bio lab, like was suggested on Batchelor & Alexander last night, this guy is not responsible.

[ChemistCat]

Who has to collect the cow urine, and how? Follow the cow around?

"Excuse me, Bessie, would you please pee in this bottle?"

[Zavien Doombringer]

HAHAHAHAHAAAA, vey Punny!

[The Pheonix]

Shenzhen is in Guangdong Province quite near to HK

It is an ultra modern metropolis built out of padi fiels in the 1980s

It is a booming manufacturing and Hi-Tech industries city

[The Pheonix]

that's how the phrase, "HOLY COW!" came, about

Or as the cow would say, No SARS, no piss

[Betty Jo]

Perhaps the chef was/is the terrs vector dupe?

[familyofman]

Just proving once again - you are what you eat. Please pass the blowfish, cock-a-to, lychee nut salad, with cow urine dressing.

[Prince Charles]

I thought Time Asia had implicated an exotic animal dealer as the index patient in Canton province? I suppose he could have sold some of the critters to the weirdo chef....

[The Pheonix]

don't knock it

urine contains a lot of nitrogenous waste by-products some of whick are toxic, and maybe this toxic stuff could help to do the SARS virus in

This is real folk medicine

[k2blader]

I'll have the pangolin steak--well done, please.

[The Pheonix]

...besides, cow urine is readily available on the farm, and it's free......

[neither-nor]

After intense mental cogitation I have come to the conclusion that this uncle doesnt seem to like his nephew's cooking. I'll take a wild risk and state that he doesn't like his nephew either.

[The Pheonix]

the cow urine treatment is the best example of FAITH HEALING

If you have enough faith in the doctor to drink cow urine, then your body's defense system have enough will power and enough fighting spirit to give the SARS virus a good fight