China orders 10,000 cats killed amid SARS fears

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China orders 10,000 cats killed amid SARS fears

 

 

January 5, 2004

 

 

BY JOE MCDONALD

 

 

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BEIJING -- China today ordered about 10,000 civet cats in wildlife

markets killed in its southern province of Guangdong after genetic tests

suggested a link to a suspected SARS case.

 

 

Also today, authorities denied reports a second suspected case of severe

acute respiratory syndrome had been found in Guangdong.

 

 

All of Guangdong's wildlife markets were ordered to close, Feng

Liuxiang, deputy director of the province's health department, said on

national television.

 

 

Civets are considered a delicacy in Guangdong and are served in wild

game restaurants.

 

 

The announcement came after researchers at Hong Kong University said

they found similarities between a virus found in the cats and in a

suspected SARS patient in Guangdong, suggesting the disease might have

jumped from animals. AP

 

 

 

 

 

GEVHA- Grupo para el Estudio de la Violencia Hacia Humanos y Animales.

Educación Humanitaria.

Group for the Study of Violence towards Humans & Animals. Humane

Education.

 

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http://www.violenciaanimales/

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" La conmiseración con los animales esta íntimamente ligada con la bondad

de caracter, de tal suerte que se puede afirmar seguro que quien es

cruel con los animales, no puede ser buena persona. Una compasión por

todos los seres vivos es la prueba más firme y segura de la conducta

moral "

 

Arthur Schopenhauer (filósofo alemán)

 

 

" Primum, non noccere " - Hipócrates (médico griego)