Uno zibetto in un mercato di animali selvatici a Wuhan: si ritiene che il virus sia transitato da luoghi come questo, passando dagli animali all’uomo (zoonosi). Foto: AFP. (CHINA OUT NO INTERNET) A Chinese policeman watches over a civet cat captured in the wild by a farmer in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province 26 May 2003. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic could lead to a mass slaughter of civet cats and raccoon dogs, which were named as likely suspects in the epidemic, on breeding farms, a fate identical to that which befell chickens in Hong Kong during the "bird flu" epidemic that erupted in the former British colony in the late 1990s. (CHINA OUT NO INTERNET) AFP PHOTO (Photo by - / AFP)
