Bloomberg) - the world's first piece of the three cases of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza outbreak in mainland China, as if SARS nightmare reproduction. Hong Kong experts pointed out today, the natural host of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), is named "China Rhinolophus bats, civets have been wronged.
Mainland China Central Television reported that 10 years of painstaking research of SARS Hong Kong University School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, the natural host of SARS virus is a name of Chinese Rhinolophus bats, civet cats had been wronged. He said, civet cats just the intermediate host of the SARS virus, not a natural host, it is also contagious. Yuen Kwok-yung said the beginning that civet cats are the natural host of the SARS virus, but this is wrong. Because of civet cats in the wild and in the breeding grounds of civet cats do not have the virus, civet cats to the wildlife markets, there is the SARS coronavirus, which civets were infected by the other animals in the wildlife markets.
Of human infection with the SARS epidemic in Shunde, Guangdong, China, in November 2002 the first outbreak, but it was the mainland authorities to conceal the epidemic from spreading to neighboring Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, and then spread to Canada, Europe and other places, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) 2003 figures released by the global total of 8069 people infected, 775 people died.
Mainland the Guangdong SARS prevention, scientific and technological group of experts in studying how SARS is transmitted to humans that Cantonese addicted to food game Cantonese table dishes of civet cats, and generally become the main carrier of the SARS coronavirus, and thus identified the SARS virus may Guangdong farmers breeding of civet cats and cause human disease.
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