China Sars man 'never ate civet': China's latest Sars patient says he has never eaten a civet cat, as the authorities in the southern province of Guangdong continue to slaughter thousands of the animals as an anti-Sars measure.
Slaughter of the Animals: The Xinyuan market reeks of animal waste and death. Trucks arrive daily with animals jammed into cages—cats, dogs, pigeons, boars, ostriches, even rats. The people who work in the market live in cages, too. They sleep above their shops, in tiny lofts with bars for walls. When they awoke on Tuesday they ran squarely into the local government's new war against SARS. Animal control officers in masks and smocks confiscated 148 animals, including civet cats, which some scientists believe are SARS carriers. The animals, relatives of the mongoose that would have ended up as a stew on local menus, earned no reprieve. (NY Times: Requires free regestration.)
Filipino Woman Has Pneumonia, Not SARS: A Filipino woman suspected of contracting SARS while working as a maid in Hong Kong has pneumonia, not the virus that killed 800 people around the world last year. (NY Times: Requires free regestration.)
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