| 1 | The virus could jump from civet cats to humans through continuous mutation. | |
| 2 | The scientists mapped the genes of the viruses taken from two of the civets . | |
| 3 | Prof Yuen said it was unlikely that people had been infected by eating civets. | |
| 4 | But the virus may have jumped into humans as they raised, slaughtered and cooked them. | |
| 5 | He studies the Indonesian population of a small meat-eating creature called the Malay civet. |