That's... really odd! It makes the jump from livestock to humans because livestock are crammed tight together, and humans have lots of unsanitary contact with large numbers of infected animals.

But for (presumably) an infected person to pass it to a cat? That's wild.

Perhaps the cat caught it from a bird it had caught or something - it's more likely that it would make the species jump from an animal the cat was carryng in its mouth and fubbing its breathing-holes and eyes into than from casual pet-owner contact.

...Unless the cat's owner was one of those crazy ladies that give their cats lip-kisses. Ew.

DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!

Who says this is gonna be like A6 or Cap'n Trips from "The Stand"?

Originally posted by midnightbrigade
DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!

Yeah, this war that humons are waging against mother nature ain't going to well lately. Them pigs are sure kicking humon butt, eh? I recommend you all surrender before it's too late. I can't wait for all the other species to join in the fight.

Not really surprising. When my girl gets sick with the flu or whatever, she takes the cat to bed with her and without fail, the cat will get sick a few days later.

One day they'll manufacture a virus designed to make money for the pharma companies to pretend to save us with a fake vaccine , that will really kill us all off, every living thing will die.
They have NO IDEA what the future ramifications or forethought of what they do when they release these viruses, they are blinded by the dollar sign.
Now that this cat and 2 ferrets have / had swine flu goes to prove a point that viruses mutate beyond our control.
And one day it will come and bite them on their asses and we will be the ones to suffer.

Grant it, I am cynical but my first instinct after reading this was 'nonsense'.

You have to test for this (man-made) virus! Who brings their cat/pet in, who appears to have a cold, and asks for HIV----chicken pox---- or now.....H1N1? Nope! I am not buying this!

If my cat looked ill, I'd bring her to the vet, get some antibiotics and be on our merry way back home. It would never cross my mind to have him start testing for some designer-disease when the symptoms appeared to be merely a cold.
In fact, I never heard of a pet coming down with the flu either.

More propaganda fear to digest. That's all this is IMO

[edit on 5-11-2009 by TwoPhish]