Okay people, I hadn’t wanted to?do this, but I had to do this for Yazad.

So a few days back we traced the historical roots of the epidemic right? Now that disease has returned, it proves that history repeats itself as a SARS.

It is now turning out that the original carrier of the deadly epidemic was – the Civet Cat.

A top Hong Kong scientist said on Friday it was likely the deadly SARS virus that has killed almost 700 people worldwide jumped to humans from civet cats, which are considered a delicacy by many people in southern China.

The finding will help prevent a repeat of such an epidemic in the future through the use of more hygienic and regulated methods of farming and slaughter, said Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, head of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong.

(Wired News: SARS Origin: Maybe Civet Cats)

To coin a term – Civet Cats are SARSinogens.

And is there anything the Chinese won’t eat?