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Turnips
Touted as SARS Cure in Beijing
BEIJING (Reuters) -
A turnip a day keeps the SARS virus away, or so many in China's
capital believe.
Turnip prices have jumped in Beijing
after the vegetable was touted as a key ingredient in a potion
to fight the deadly virus that causes severe acute respiratory
syndrome, or SARS, peddlers said.
Carrots, leeks, garlic and ginger
have leapt in popularity, too, after the popular Star Daily tabloid
published a recipe for fighting SARS last week that included those
ingredients along with turnips.
"A lot of people want turnips,"
said vegetable vendor Hu Benqiang, adding that he expected prices
to keep rising.
Long, white turnips are already
selling for three yuan per kilogram (kg) at one neighborhood market,
up from 2.40 yuan (10 pence) per kg last week, said Hu. Wholesale
prices have shot up more than 30 percent.
Chinese citizens have been trying
antibiotics, cold medicines and home remedies such as boiling
vinegar and eating whole cloves of raw garlic to fight SARS. One
official health newspaper recommended dead silkworms and cicada
skins as part of another recipe.
Health experts say there is no
known cure for SARS, which has infected more than 3,300 people
and killed at least 144 -- nearly half of them in China -- since
it emerged in China's southern province of Guangdong in November.
http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/turnips_touted_SARS_cure.shtml
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