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To: Biomaven who wrote (9937)	1/6/2004 7:54:32 PM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (1) of 52153

Here's the followup to the followup: >>Professor Yuen Kwok Yung, head of the microbiology department of the Hong Kong University's medical faculty, said recent samples of the Sars virus taken from the cats showed more similarities to the human form than samples taken from the animals during the last outbreak. 'There is some genetic evidence that this new virus from the civet cats... is moving towards the human Sars coronavirus,' said Prof Yuen, whose team identified the civet cat as the prime suspect of the source of the Sars epidemic in May last year. 'We fear that may mean higher transmissibility to humans. That looks a little sinister,' he told Reuters in an interview.<< Maybe the clock is not quite back to zero. Do any of the animal sequences have the 29 nt deletion? straitstimes.asia1.com.sg JAN 7, 2004 New virus may jump more easily to humans HONG KONG - Recent genetic studies in Hong Kong have detected small but significant changes in the Sars virus isolated from civet cats that suggest it may jump more easily to humans, a leading microbiologist said yesterday.

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