China in civet cat crackdown to prevent SARS
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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 linked with the cats.
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Cats can get the avian influenza virus decimating bird flocks across Asia, which means pets are at risk of getting and spreading the disease -- and may serve as a mixing pot for dangerous new mutations, Dutch researchers reported on Thursday.
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Hong Kong authorities may ban the slaughtering of poultry by retailers in a bid to prevent a bird (avian) flu pandemic. The WHO has warned that the next global pandemic may come from a mutated bird flu virus.
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China has implemented a new set of regulations that prohibit labs from experimenting on risky pathogenic microbes without approval.
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By Frank Urquhart  A MAJOR crackdown on the "barbaric" and illegal sport of hare coursing has been identified as one of the main priorities for a pioneering taskforce, established to combat wildlife crime in the north-east of Scotland.
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China&#39;s parliament passed a law Saturday banning the buying or selling of blood to prevent the spread of AIDS and outlawing discrimination against victims of infectious diseases, state media said.
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China is touting the pre-emptive measures it has taken to cooperate with the world&#39;s public health establishment in fighting bird flu.
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The power of the Internet has saved  more than 800 cats from being skinned and served up on Chinese  dinner tables.
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Dozens of tigers are to be culled after an outbreak of bird flu at a private zoo in Thailand killed 30 big cats.
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China has issued emergency instructions  to hospitals nationwide to isolate patients suffering from  severe respiratory diseases to prevent a winter recurrence of  SARS, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
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Scientists in Hong Kong say they may have found a series of chemicals that could counter the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and other viruses.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's central government has dispatched a team of inspectors to some provinces in an attempt to put a stop to local government land grabs.
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South Korea plans to kill cats and dogs to try to prevent the spread of bird flu after an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 virus at a chicken farm last week, officials said Monday.
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SHANGHAI - The Chinese government said yesterday it had arrested 774 people in the past two months as part of a nationwide crackdown on the production and sale of tainted food, drugs, and agricultural products.
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BEIJING, Oct. 29 -- China said Monday that it had arrested 774 people in a crackdown on substandard goods, part of its efforts to calm international worries over the quality of the country's products.
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China will clamp down on foods tainted with illegal and excessive chemicals as it seeks to quell domestic and foreign alarm about toxins in meat, seafood and vegetables, the country's top agriculture official said.
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BEIJING - China has launched a crackdown on scary children's stories including the popular Japanese "Death Note" comic book series, state media said Saturday.