civet

The SARS virus spread to people from civets infected with a bat coronavirus.

In China, civets, live wolf pups and pangolins have often been kept in cramped and filthy conditions, allowing diseases to incubate and then spill into human populations.

That demonstrated a connection to food animals, which was quickly confirmed when a team from Hong Kong found an almost identical virus in civets held in market cages.

That genetic detective work revealed that civets most likely got the virus from bats and then passed it onto the people who handled civets.

In the wake of that outbreak, which claimed at least 774 lives worldwide, palm civets were banned from sale or consumption in China.

Muske-catthe civet-cat; applied as a term of contempt to a fop, as being a person perfumed with musk.

The civet has nothing in common with the hyna but the glandular pouch, under the tail, and the mane along the neck and back-bone.

THE generality of naturalists are of opinion that the perfume called civet, or musk, is furnished only by one species of animals.

Certain it is, that most of the fables which have been related of the hyna, took their rise from the civet.

The civet brought from Amsterdam is preferred to that which comes from the Levant or the Indies, as being the most genuine.