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 ...

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 ...

GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization lifted its SARS-related travel advisories today against Hong Kong and the Chinese province of Guangdong, saying the outbreaks are under control there.

BEIJING, Jan. 5 -- The World Health Organization concluded Monday that a hospital patient quarantined in southern China as a suspected SARS case had definitely contracted the disease, confirming fears ...

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 ...

This story erroneously states that the civet cat is in the same animal family as ferrets. It is in the same family as the genet, another small carnivore that is found in Africa. LONDON -- Researchers ...

BEIJING, Aug. 14 -- An animal considered a delicacy in parts of China will be available for sale once again despite possible links to SARS, the government and state media said today as Beijing's final ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...