{"id":2759,"date":"2003-05-24T18:03:33","date_gmt":"2003-05-24T12:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/24\/conspiracy-theory-update-4\/"},"modified":"2003-05-24T18:03:33","modified_gmt":"2003-05-24T12:33:33","slug":"conspiracy-theory-update-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200305\/conspiracy-theory-update-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Theory Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay people, I hadn&#8217;t wanted to?do this, but I had to do this for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/comments\/?blgid=339\">Yazad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So a few days back we traced the historical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/?RequestId=279\">roots<\/a> of the epidemic right? Now that disease has returned, it proves  that history repeats itself as a SARS.<\/p>\n<p>It is now turning out that the original carrier  of the deadly epidemic was &#8211; the Civet Cat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><small><br \/>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/medtech\/0,1286,58975,00.html\" class = \"source\">Wired News: SARS Origin: Maybe Civet Cats<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>To coin a term &#8211; Civet Cats are <i>SARS<\/i>inogens.<\/p>\n<p><small>And is there anything the Chinese <i>won&#8217;t <\/i> eat?<\/small><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay people, I hadn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}