Oleh sebab bimbang tentang kerugian segi ekonomi, mereka tidak berani mengisytiharkan SARS disebar melalui daging khinzir.

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Saturday, May 10, 2003

WOULD CHINA ADMIT IT IF ITS PIG POPULATION CARRIED THE SARS-ASSOCIATED CORONAVIRUS?

If history is an indication, the answer is yes--after they have been forced to. China has had many weeks to figure this out. The fact that food handlers seemed to be disproportionately affected by SARS should have been a hint that they should look at the first obvious suspects in the kitchen: ducks, chicken, and PIGS. It is unlikely that all the foodhandlers who came down with SARS were preparing owl tartare or tureen of alley cat. Unfortunately, the agricultural researchers in America seem about as eager to find out. Call up American pig researchers and ask them about SARS and pigs and you will get an earful of crankiness.

The FAO issued a fuzzy interview about the near impossibility of livestock transmission. Yeah, right. There's no evidence that SARS is being tramsmitted by livestock, but on the other hand, no research to determine if it can be transmitted by livestock has been completed. Research is under way, they say, rather grumpily. It will be interesting to see how they try and spin the story if livestock can carry the SARS-associated coronavirus.

An still, no scientist is willing to stand up and say that research exists which suggests the coronaviruses go back and forth between people and pigs with alarming ease. posted by chuck 12:27 PM

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