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Cats Likely Source of SARS, Say Researchers (Chinese delicacy likely source of deadly virus)
VOA News ^
| 5/23/03
| Katherine Maria
Posted on 05/23/2003 9:17:52 AM PDT by ppaul
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To: Exit148
Thanks for your response
yes, I read that the chef survived his bout of SARS
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To: downwithterrorism
BTTT
To: The Red Zone
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But I understand that cats and dogs are becoming more popular as pets in China.A few years back - in the 80s, there were no veterinarians in Beijing. Shortly after, there was an article in "China Today" about the popularity and need for them.
I'll never forget one little vignette I witnessed in the boonies of China. There was a farmer tending his farm and there was a mongrel dog with him. The farmer stopped for a moment and looked at his dog, as the dog looked up to him. They held their gaze on each other for a few moments, then the farmer went back to work. I didn't expect to see this sort of thing --- the same thing that I have done to my own pets. Other people with me noticed the same thing and commented on it.
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posted on
05/23/2003 8:48:46 PM PDT
by
Exit148
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To: The Pheonix
Eating exotic animals or other oddities is supposed to be some sort of sophistication, I guess. I read somewhere, it was a way to give 'merit to the elite'.
I guess we do it, in a way, when we savor live oysters on the half-shell, caviar, and raw meat. We've all heard of the delicacy of "unborn lamb"??
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posted on
05/23/2003 8:57:33 PM PDT
by
Exit148
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To: ppaul
(In my homer simpson voice) hmmmmm cat.
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posted on
05/23/2003 9:05:59 PM PDT
by
Dengar01
To: Exit148
They looked at the "menu items" when an unusually large number of the early Asian cases involved food handlers.
To: lib-r-teri-ann
No, I wasn't mixing cats (no pun intended), I was talking about house cats.
To: ppaul
Me-OUCH!
To: chickenlips
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They looked at the "menu items" when an unusually large number of the early Asian cases involved food handlers."Of course! (Why didn't I think of that!)
If it can be nailed down to the civet cat, at least the source can be controlled. (And maybe the Chinese will curb their yen for the exotic?)
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05/23/2003 9:26:15 PM PDT
by
Exit148
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To: Eric Esot
Sounds like, looks like, and smells like pet ferret.
Carnivorous mammals are too close to us genetically. Bad idea to eat them.
Africans are out of their minds eating great apes- 99% genetic match to homo sapiens. (In essence, cannibalism)
No wonder the funkiest, nastiest diseases originate there. Hellllooo? Africa...can you say 21st century?
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posted on
05/23/2003 9:41:28 PM PDT
by
Publicus
(Come November, We'll Remember)
To: Zavien Doombringer
You're good.
There's a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon The place that I eat every day at noon They can feed you cat and you'll never know Once they wrap it up in dough boys
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posted on
05/23/2003 9:48:58 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
To: Lijahsbubbe
Meow good , yummy yummy, you try, you try. Make you strong, taste good,oh yeah yummy yummy.
Not to be racist or anything, but is there anything that crawls, swims, flies, or walks that the chinese won't eat? As far as the musk perfume goes, did anyone ever look at that possibly introducing the virus into the Human population? Gotta go got a badger steak cookin on the grill, I likes mine rare.
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posted on
05/23/2003 10:30:25 PM PDT
by
menotyu
(It's not the dreams when I sleep that scare me, it's the ones I have while I'm awake!)
To: rintense
I really don't like cats , but I saw that too. When they were pounding it on the head with the stick I guess to try and knock it out. It didn't work, that poor thing suffered so horribly. I felt like going there and stompin some ass. PETA still sucks though.
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posted on
05/23/2003 10:37:45 PM PDT
by
menotyu
(It's not the dreams when I sleep that scare me, it's the ones I have while I'm awake!)
To: rintense
Gee, not real sensitive to diversity and multiculturalism, eh?
Still viewing the world thorugh your Christo-centric, paternalistic, westernized rose-colored glasses?
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posted on
05/24/2003 12:01:41 AM PDT
by
ppaul
To: rintense
It was "Animals:To Love or Hate", I saw it and regretted not flipping the channel sooner. I was angry for a week thinking about how horribly these animals died!
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posted on
05/24/2003 12:08:31 AM PDT
by
seeker41
To: ppaul
Jeez, can you get that "Cats" out of the title a Civet is not a house cat but some people seem to think so. Before you know it they will be taking our pet cats away to be shot.
To: SamiGirl
That's what the people at my local Mensa meetings tell me too. Hmmmm....
To: ppaul
WHAT A CROCK!
This is a slimy, slanderous slur, Sr.
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posted on
05/24/2003 5:34:46 AM PDT
by
Socks C.
To: ppaul
Yep. I never have been politically correct and never will be.
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posted on
05/24/2003 5:53:11 AM PDT
by
rintense
(Freedom is contagious. And everyone wants to catch it.)
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