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House cats and ferrets can get the SARS virus and can probably pass it on to us. This makes sense given that the virus originated with civet cats in China, before it jumped to humans. Disease expert Robert Shope says, “You might want to quarantine the pets as well as the people.”

But housecats didn’t play a direct role in the recent SARS epidemics, despite the fact that infected cats were found in a Hong Kong apartment complex where there was a SARS epidemic last year. “These animals in all likelihood did not play a significant role in spread of (SARS) to humans,” says Dr. Klaus Stohr, the World Health Organization’s chief SARS scientist.
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We’ve written that U.S. scientists are recreating the lethal Spanish Flu, that killed 20-40 million people in 1918. Now we’ve learned that scientists have also created an extremely deadly genetically-engineered form of mousepox, a relative of the smallpox virus. Although it should only be lethal for mice, geneticist Ian Ramshaw says, “I have great concern about doing this in a pox virus that can cross species?You’d hope (it) remains mouse-specific.”
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This Saturday, November 1st, Whitley Strieber will be the guest of Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM, starting at 11 pm Pacific time. Listen to Whitley tell Art about why he has become convinced, for the first time, that his Visitor experiences were real. They also plan to discuss the recent solar storms.

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Join us in our latest prayer as we think of those who have lost their homes in the California fires. We send out a prayer for rain and a prayer for strength.

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