[js1138]

I'm jumping into this thread without reading everything, but I just heard on the radio news a few minutes ago that SARS has been traced to an oddball restraunt dish using a cat or catlike creature as the meat item.

[putupon]

but I just heard on the radio news a few minutes ago that SARS has been traced to an oddball restraunt dish using a cat

I hate cats

[putupon]

but I just heard on the radio news a few minutes ago that SARS has been traced to an oddball restraunt dish using a cat

and cat fried rice,too. you can order shrimp fried rice instead, but it does no good. those little squares of mystery meat were named Fluffy before they were minced.

[Darksheare]

Catlike creature?

*Cue Wing Commander game music*
We have the Kilrathi where we want them!

Seriously though, that would truly stink, 'cause I like cats.
And if cats ARE the carriers of SARs over there... how would it jump species, and what would the mechanism be?
(Would it be like toxoplasmosis in it's actions at all?)
Weird, truly, truly weird.

[Spyder]

I'm jumping into this thread without reading everything, but I just heard on the radio news a few minutes ago that SARS has been traced to an oddball restraunt dish using a cat or catlike creature as the meat item.

The ignorant reporter from the Australian paper that published this called the vector "feline," when it's more closely related to the skunk. It's called a "civet cat," which is where he apparently got the idea it's a "cat."