BEIJING, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Chinese health authorities have launched a crackdown on restaurants offering civet cats for consumption, state media said on Wednesday, to prevent an outbreak of SARS ...

GENEVA—Rare Chinese masked palm civet cats, a medicinal food animal in Southern China eaten to reduce the chance of winter infections like colds and flu, contain the coronavirus thought to cause ...

BEIJING -- China on Monday confirmed its first SARS case since an outbreak of the disease was contained in July, and authorities ordered an emergency slaughter of civet cats and other species thought ...

GUANGZHOU, China - Racing against a self-imposed deadline, authorities in southern China drowned or electrocuted the first of thousands of civet cats today in an urgent effort to eliminate a possible ...

China plans to kill thousands of the food animals, which are suspected of carrying the respiratory disease. BEIJING -- Faced with the return of SARS, China ordered on Monday the slaughter of thousands ...

BEIJING — China on Monday ordered some 10,000 civet cats in wildlife markets killed in its southern province of Guangdong after genetic tests suggested a link to a suspected SARS case. Also Monday, ...

The civet cat, a nocturnal mammal similar to the weasel, is served in southern China in a variety of ways: roasted whole, braised in brown sauce or standing in for tiger flesh in the classic Dragon, ...

A species of coronary virus is mutating rapidly inside civet cats, disputed SARS virus carriers, and people should not lower their guard against the epidemic, said Zhong Nanshan, China's leading ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A joint China-Hong Kong research team says it has found a genetic link between SARS in civet cats and humans, bearing out claims that the disease had jumped across species, state ...