H5N1 found in cat

A cat in Germany has been confirmed as being infected with the deadly H5N1 virus.



This is worrying. The virus has started to mutate it seems. Cant wait to hear more news on this as there isn't any more information available at the moment.



Other links of interest

news.nationalgeographic.com...

www.msnbc.msn.com...

www.npr.org...

[edit on 28/2/06 by Yossarian]

That is so incredibly ironic

it is a bit worrying though.

Hmm, it's disturbing to say the least.

I have to wonder where the cat was found? Was it in a city, or on a bird farm, though probably it was on a farm.

Poor thing probably just wanted a meal, and died because of it. I wonder if that is how it happened and that there was no mutation...

Originally posted by Sir Solomon

Poor thing probably just wanted a meal, and died because of it. I wonder if that is how it happened and that there was no mutation...

Seems to be. Authorities don't talk much about H5N1 bird flu entering through the gut - but it does, via infected meat, maybe eggs, and contaminated water.

...That's why bird flu was flagged as threatening biodiversity at the bif confewrence in Brazil last week.

I just found this, and it is...diturbing to say the least...

I mean when I did my research paper I remember the the Flu virus actually takes DNA from other animals, but the only ones that were mentioned were bird and pigs, not cats!

Here is the link: Dutch warns cats could play role in bird flu transmission, mutation

I figured I would post it here instead of starting a new thread, since we have already been talking about cats dying and H5N1 here.

Sir S - you're right. It's another H5N1 first: cats do not normally get flu, not even Type A.

Originally posted by soficrow
Sir S - you're right. It's another H5N1 first: cats do not normally get flu, not even Type A.

Hmm, scary.

Yeah, I went back and checked most of my sources, and there is no listing of cats.

Possible mutation? I don't want to sound paranoid, but we could actually be seeing it....

Hmm, if we were to see the massive die off of Cats, well, it would certainly make things interesting...

Keep them inside if you have an outbreak near:

Keep cats indoors if avian flu nearby, researchers warn

BBC says the cat in Germany was not the first case. The first case(s) were in Thailand.



It appears that once a cat gets infected, it spreads easily from one cat to another.



The headline fits. It does appear to have been overlooked. Dozens of cats infected, 147 tigers dead? Why weren't we informed earlier?

Originally posted by Beachcoma
It does appear to have been overlooked. Dozens of cats infected, 147 tigers dead? Why weren't we informed earlier?

We were informed earlier but no-one cared to notice.

Actually we were just told a cat died in Germany because of H5N1. I checked all the old links and old news in Google, nothing came out quite like this latest BBC news article. They only make a passing mention of tigers dying in Thailand.

Can you imagine that? 147 tigers died from H5N1 and all it gets is a passing mention?

Originally posted by TPL

We were informed earlier but no-one cared to notice.

True...Sad...but true.

Our own careless nature in abusing nature and in also ignoring it when it starts trying to correct itself.

The mainstream American or World Citizen won't even care until it mutates and becomes too late to make preparations.