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To: jgrubbs

So they traced the source. This still begs the question, was it natural or assisted? If natural, then why didn't it happen 1000 years ago?

24 posted on 05/23/2003 10:01:54 AM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Un-PC even to "Conservatives!" - Right makes right)

To: belmont_mark

"So they traced the source.

I wonder what made them even think of the civet cat, in the first place?

26 posted on 05/23/2003 10:06:20 AM PDT by Exit148 (Another $3+ for the Loose Change Club contribution tord the next Freepathon!)

To: belmont_mark

Animals of all kinds from all over the world are sent to the Asian markets.

SARS could have been sent to Asia from anywhere in the world if it didn't spring up in China,itself.

34 posted on 05/23/2003 10:28:37 AM PDT by Free Trapper

To: belmont_mark

Exactly.

The full genome of the viruses in these cats needs to be sequenced and compared with the Sars isolate genomes already determined.

43 posted on 05/23/2003 10:52:21 AM PDT by tallhappy

To: belmont_mark

"So they traced the source. This still begs the question, was it natural or assisted? If natural, then why didn't it happen 1000 years ago?"

Maybe it DID happen 1000 years ago, but with diagnostics being prrimitive, they maybe said it was caused by looking at trees while crosseyed.

107 posted on 05/24/2003 9:13:19 AM PDT by cookcounty

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