BEIJING -- A ban on the sale of civet cats in China has been lifted despite the creature's possible link to the spread of SARS -- a sign that economic concerns are trumping medical precautions barely ...

A person came down with an atypical form of pneumonia in November 2002, but it would be two months before anyone realized it ...

World's most expensive coffee has a controversial history. — -- The most expensive coffee in the world is harvested from a place where the sun don’t shine. It’s an exotic delicacy called Kopi ...

Researchers analyzed genetic material gathered from the Chinese market where the first outbreak was detected and found that the most likely animals were racoon dogs, civet cats and bamboo rats. The ...

If there’s one thing that coffee producers from the South Asian countries of India, Indonesia, and Philippines, among others, are excited by, it’s the sighting of fresh civet cat poop. Buried within ...

It has been described as nutty, chocolatey, earthy and even fishy: a wildly expensive coffee that can sell for more than 100 times the price of regular brews, made from beans eaten and excreted by ...

The world’s most prized coffee comes from partially digested beans pooped out by the Asian palm civet. Now, researchers are delving into why this “civet coffee” is so tasty. New chemical analyses of ...

There’s something both fascinating and faintly unsettling about the world’s most expensive coffee starting its journey in an animal’s gut. Known as Kopi Luwak in Indonesia, civet coffee has been ...