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This article is from The Star Online (http://thestar.com.my)

URL: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/1/10/asia/7076890 & sec=asia

 

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Saturday January 10, 2004

Hefty fines for those hiding civet cats

 

 

GUANGZHOU: Authorities in SARS-wary southern China threatened fines of up to

US$12,000 (RM45,600) yesterday for merchants who try to hide civet cats, a day

ahead of the deadline to slaughter thousands of the animals because of fears

they carry the disease.

 

Health workers have been drowning, electrocuting and incinerating civets by the

thousands.

 

The order to kill civets set a Saturday deadline and later was expanded to

include badgers, racoon dogs and some other wildlife eaten in Guangzhou.

 

After today, “any business person caught hiding civets will be fined between

10,000 and 100,000 yuan (RM4,600 to RM46,000),” said the newspaper Guangzhou

Daily. It said authorities would carry out a “carpet-style investigation” to

root out hidden animals.

 

Though Guangzhou is one of China's most prosperous areas, such fines are severe

in a society where annual urban incomes average just US$700 (RM2,660) per

person.

 

Merchants also have an incentive to hide civets. The animals can fetch 90 yuan

(RM41) per kilo.

 

The 20-year-old waitress who was declared on Thursday China's second suspected

SARS case was isolated in the Guangzhou No. 8 People's Hospital and her status

was unchanged, said a spokesman for the provincial health bureau. He refused to

give his name.

 

The announcement of her case came just as China's first SARS case, the

television producer, left the same Guangzhou hospital after being pronounced

recovered.

 

Hospital president Tang Xiaoping said he could not confirm reports the waitress

worked at a restaurant that served wild game. Scientists say the virus might

have begun in wild animals and then jumped to humans.

 

“Whether she handled animals, I'm not clear,” Tang said at a news conference on

Thursday.

 

In Hong Kong, the third of three Hong Kong television station workers who came

down with fever after returning from southern China has tested negative for

SARS, a government spokesman said yesterday.

 

The other two men tested negative for SARS on Thursday. & #8211; Agencies

 

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