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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on November 16, 2017, 01:39:52 pm
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Could Your Cat Give You 'Bird Flu?'
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. scientists are reporting a case of a veterinarian who apparently caught "bird flu" from an infected cat at a New York City animal shelter.
The case occurred in December 2016. The unnamed veterinarian got through the battle with the H7N2 strain of influenza, but the cat died, according to researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the past, people -- often poultry workers -- have contracted avian influenza H7N2 from close proximity to birds. However, "we know of no other reported instances of direct transmission from a cat to a human," according to a CDC team led by microbiologist and influenza researcher Dr. Atanaska Marinova-Petkova.
https://consumer.healthday.com/infectious-disease-information-21/flu-news-314/could-your-cat-give-you-bird-flu-728561.html