WHO links Sars virus to animals: The World Health Organization says it has found evidence suggesting that civet cats do carry the Sars virus. Its inspection team in the southern Chinese province of Guangzhou found traces of the virus in a restaurant where a suspected Sars patient worked.
Quarantine of People from Bird Flu-hit Countries Intensified : China's State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (SAQSIQ) issued a circular Thursday urging its subordinate quarantine departments to step up quarantine over people from regions hit by bird flu. The circular calls on all local quarantine departments to take rigid measures, such as testing body temperatures and registering health conditions, to quarantine those from the Republic of Korea (ROK), Japan and Vietnam, three Asian nations struck by the poultry disease.
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