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if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Tasty SARS

by Lee

There’s good news for admirers of traditional Chinese cuisine.

Amid warnings about the possible return of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), restaurants inthe capital of south China’s Guangdong Province were again allowed in mid-October to serve civet cats, the carrier of a virus similar to the SARS coronavirus. 

Lian Junhao, an official in charge of wild life protection in Guangzhou, said the city began to issue licenses permitting restaurants to sell game food. 

Civet cats, once commonly seen in Guangdong restaurants, were banned after scientists found a SARS-like virus on the animal. 

This is a subject I’ve blogged on before.  “If it walks, flies, crawls, or slithers on its belly the Chinese will put it in a pot, cook it, and eat it.” So, what’s a little SARS-transmission between friends?

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