Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ECEDBB8.B7C98694@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwode Reply-To: cat@luckymojo.com Organization: Lucky Mojo Curio Co. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: SARS from the stars? Or Civets? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 02:30:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.150.184 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1053743459 209.204.150.184 (Fri, 23 May 2003 19:30:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 19:30:59 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:346468 Gavriel wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,58967,00.html The news today is that the SARS virus has been found in Masked Palm Civets, a mongoose-like animal. Whether the civets got is from humans or vice versa is unknown. This is on-topic, as civet musk is an ingredient in several famous ritual perfumes. Civets are endangered animals and trade in civet musk may be illegal in your nation, depending on the species of civet involved and where you are. cat yronwode