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China Ministry, WHO Confirm Guangdong Patient Has SARS
Associated Press ^ | Monday, January 5, 2004

Posted on 01/05/2004 10:26:07 AM PST by presidio9

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

China on Monday confirmed its first SARS case since an outbreak of the disease was contained in July and authorities ordered the emergency slaughter of some 10,000 civet cats and related species after tests linked a virus found in the animals to the patient.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; civets; coronavirus; guangdong; guangzhou; hongkong; mutation; philippines; rats; sars; who

1 posted on 01/05/2004 10:26:09 AM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9
The WHO's a division of the UN and the UN is philosophically in line with China. Meaning SARS is here to stay, because there's NO WAY a vaccine will ever be invented for China's latest gift to the world : human suffering seems to be China's number #1 export and the UN's cash cow. Which is why SARS is way more hyped than virulent. And where're the PETA protests over the slaughter of all those innocent, enslaved civet cats?
2 posted on 01/05/2004 11:13:39 AM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: presidio9; CathyRyan; Mother Abigail; Dog Gone; Petronski; per loin; riri; flutters; Judith Anne; ..
I guess this makes it official.
3 posted on 01/05/2004 11:19:01 AM PST by aristeides
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To: notorious vrc
Like a raccoon...it is NOT a feline!
5 posted on 01/05/2004 12:05:14 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: notorious vrc
A civet cat is a mongoose relative that formerly inhabited the Guangdong Province of China
6 posted on 01/05/2004 12:05:51 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: notorious vrc

Civet

8 posted on 01/05/2004 12:47:39 PM PST by blam
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