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 ...

China is lifting its ban on trade in civet cats, an animal considered a delicacy in southern China that researchers have suggested is linked to the spread of SARS, according to state media and the ...

China’s Health Ministry has banned the cooking and selling of civet cat to prevent a return of severe acute respiratory syndrome, state media reported. Chinese health experts concluded last month that ...

Authorities in southern China on Friday threatened fines of up to $12,000 for merchants who try to hide civet cats, a day ahead of the deadline to slaughter thousands of the animals because of fears ...

Suspected SARS-carrying civet cats and other exotic wild game are back on the menu in China despite warnings from scientists. A nationwide ban on eating civet cats was enforced after studies revealed ...

BEIJING -- A ban on the sale of civet cats in China has been lifted despite the creature's possible link to the spread of SARS -- a sign that economic concerns are trumping medical precautions barely ...

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 ...

BEIJING, Jan. 6 -- Local authorities in southern China began seizing and drowning the first of thousands of civet cats on Tuesday in an emergency slaughter triggered by an unpublished study suggesting ...

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 ...