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Savage Pet, a California-based company, has issued a voluntary recall of specific batches of its raw chicken cat food due to concerns over potential contamination with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. This decision follows reports of two cats contracting the virus after consuming the affected product. Details of the Recall The recall pertains to …
There is a recent story in the online news media of 20 ‘big cats’ (not all are classic big cats as the list includes four bobcats, one lynx and four pumas) contracting bird flu (H5N1) and dying. It is the biggest outbreak of bird flu in a cat zoo that I have read about. …
Here is an infographic which explains the title above. RELATED: Bird flu kills five domestic cats in the United States of America And here is a little more information on this important topic. The study referred to took place out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The researchers also found that ferrets which became infected …
It might be useful just to briefly touch on the bird flu epidemic which affects America and other countries. I’m going to refer exclusively to America in this article partly because America’s CDC have some very useful information about it. Firstly, they remind us that bird flu is zoonotic. It can be transferred from …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a worrying development. I’ve written about bird flu before and the fact that it is a zoonotic disease which means that it can be transmitted between animals and people. Covid-19 is also a zoonotic disease and we know how badly that affected the entire planet. And today, The Sun, …
