>>9218100 (pb)
Yes, it was, thanks fren. I had capped that article weeks ago and I can't find it, went to look again just now and it's "poof".
Severe Acute Respiratory Illness in the 21st century was first detected in 2002 and was called SARS-CoV-1. During this self-limited epidemic, there were 8,098 reported cases of SARS and 774 deaths.
In 2003, Chinese scientists identified that a virus nearly identical to SARS-CoV-1 was present in raccoons, dogs, and civets (wild cats) that was sold for food. Forty percent of animal traders and 33% of workers who slaughtered the animals had antibodies to the SARS virus. Sales of these animals were stopped by the government. The death rate was 10%.
In 2004, there was another smaller SARS outbreak linked to a medical laboratory in China. It was thought to have been the result of someone coming into direct contact with a sample of the SARS virus, rather than being caused by animal-to-human or human-to-human transmission.