Vil bare gøre opmærksom på at civit cat ikke er en kat men en monguster
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Nina El Falaki
Feca Somali & Bengal Cats
E-mail: cats@feca.dk
http://www.feca.dk
"Marianne Hellemose" <hellemose.som@mail.dk> skrev i en meddelelse
news:3ee30867$0$97157$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
> A week ago there was a flurry of interest after a civet was found with
> SARS. It was universally denied by all experts that cats could harbour the
> SARS coronavirus.
>
> The Guardian newspaper has this article
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,970365,00.html
> In which it says that Erasmus University in Rotterdam has applied for
> approval to use cats to reseach SARS. The US Center for Disease Control in
> Atlanta and the Workd Heath Organistion is also taking an interest.
>
> "The domestic cat could land a starring role in the future course of
> severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). Experts have identified it as
> a potential animal model that could be used to investigate the disease.
> The only animal model currently available is the macaque monkey, which
> is expensive to use. But some pet cats in the Amoy Gardens apartment
> block in Hong Kong, where more than 100 residents contracted Sars in
> April, were found to harbour and become infected by the virus."
>
> This is a two sided research plan. On the one side, if cats are found
after
> all to be susceptable to SARS, then we have another problem on our hands.
> The good side is that it may result in further research into coronavituses
> and FCoV in particular..
>
>
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> Marianne Hellemose
> ***Ailurophil***
>
> Some people have lives, others have cats
>
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