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 [The Times - World News] Cat found dead had bird flu: They said it was the first report of a cat having had the virus since a case in Thailand in 1996, but that there was little risk to humans as there has never been a known transmission of the virus from a cat to other mammals.

[Medclinician Avian Flu News] So many possibles - the cat that might: Immunohistochemistry, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction testing, and virus isolation confirmed a diagnosis of H5N1 avian influenza virus infection. http://bigcatrescue.blogspot.com/2006/10/avian-flu-threat-to-cats.html ...

[The Lancet Student] Avian Influenza and the Wet Markets in Hong Kong: High quality H5N1 poultry vaccines should, in principle, provide good protection to poultry for sale.  Unfortunately, some suppliers in China and the illegal imports are not using these vaccines, making their livestock susceptible to avian flu. Considering the uncertainty in identifying flu-infected poultry, keeping live animals away from the general population becomes the most desirable environment that Hong Kong, a highly dense megacity, should aim for.  H5N1 is not be the only avian flu virus that we are concerned about.  Other highly pathogenic subtypes of avian flu may become capable of leaping through species barriers.  In fact, other zoontic transmissions pose a threat too, like the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) that was caused by the previously unrecognized coronavirus (SAR-CoV), which leaped from civet cats to humans. [19] As of today, animals that are found susceptible to H5N1 virus infection include aquatic birds, some species of wild birds, domestic poultry, [1] pigs, [6] palm civets, [20] tigers, [21] and cats.

[your] Bird Flu Prevention: Be especially careful if you do not know the bird flu status of that country. Try to avoid places with a lot of human traffic, such as movies, concerts or shopping malls.

[Health Experiment] SKorea cat had bird flu: officials: A Seoul quarantine official. A cat found dead in a South Korean city was infected with a virulent strain of bird flu, the first mammal in the country known to have had the H5N1 virus, health officials said(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)

 [use] The Basics about Bird Flu: For this reason, it is becoming a nuisance in undeveloped regions of Asia and Africa where poverty is widespread and living conditions are at a limit. In these places transmission between different species of birds and bird to human transmission is very likely because people live in very close contact with their poultry.

[Hakyoungs Blog] United States Versus Bird Flu: The same reassurances were given by U.S. officials and although some people see this as a preview for possible bird flu outbreaks, health experts say mild and low pathogenic strains of avian influenza such as this one are common in the United States, as well as other countries. Since 1975, the low pathogenic strain of the H5N1 virus (the highly pathogenic form of which is causing high mortality in Asia) has been found on six other occasions on U.S. soil.

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