Australian for SARS. (Australia).Scientists believe Australians could be at risk of contracting diseases like SARS because kangaroo kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the large kangaroos of the genus Macropus. , crocodiles, emus, and other wild animals WILD ANIMALS. Animals in a state of nature; animals ferae naturae. Vide Animals; Ferae naturae. are being killed in growing numbers for human consumption. The popularity of these exotic animals as pets also creates risk due to the increased contact between people and animal viruses. While long-domesticated animals such as dogs or horses carry diseases that are well known to the medical community, those carried by wild animals are less well known by scientists. The outbreak of SARS in China and monkeypox monkeypox Viral disease of both animals and humans that causes symptoms similar to those of smallpox, though less severe. The monkeypox virus is usually found in primates and rodents in Central and West Africa but has spread to other parts of the world through the export of in the US, both attributed to animal contact, are big reasons for the recent concern. --Herald Sun (Victoria, Australia Australia (ôstrāl`yə), smallest continent, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. With the island state of Tasmania to the south, the continent makes up the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary state (2005 est. pop. ), June 15 |
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