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    Posted: March 07 2006 at 2:52pm




http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/08-03-2006/77004-cat-0
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Could be from eating dead or sick birds infected with h5n1.  This would be the most likely reason.
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Infected cat raises new flu fears

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GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Reports that a cat had contracted bird flu and had not fallen ill could mean the virus was adapting to mammals and posed a potentially higher risk to humans, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday.
 

"The Austrian cat was among 170 kept in cages next to birds including a swan that died of the disease and chicken and ducks found to have the virus after they were culled last month."

If this cat didn't eat an infected bird, it was infected by another mode!

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Interesting there is a reference  on the who site about some tigers who died in 2004  of avian flu and they concluded at least some of them were tiger to tiger transmission.

No wonder they highlighted this event of the cats

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They are so naive!  Transmission of Sichuan Sheet in animals is a fact.

If we believe the Boxun  Reports, it spread via a multitude of mammals and other fauna.  The World is in a world of Hurt.
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New test on Austrian cat is negative for H5N1
07 Mar 2006 17:52:17 GMT
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VIENNA, March 7 (Reuters) - An Austrian cat which has twice tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus did not show the virus in a third probe on Tuesday, Austria's health ministry said, adding to uncertainty about the infection in cats.

The cat is one of 170 that were kept in an animal sanctuary in southern Austria close to a cage of fowl which had been infected with H5N1. Three cats tested positive for the virus in saliva tests last week, Austria said on Monday.

A subsequent test of the three cats' faeces confirmed H5N1 in only one of the samples, in a very low concentration. A third faeces test taken on Tuesday was negative for all of them, a health ministry spokeswoman said.

However, the spokeswoman added the ministry was still waiting for the results of tests on the cats' blood.

"Apparently cats are more resistant than chicken," the spokeswoman said. "That you find the virus in the mouth apparently doesn't mean that it reaches the other end too."

The 170 cats, 40 of which had been saliva-tested in the Noah's Ark sanctuary in the city of Graz, were brought to a quarantine centre close to Vienna for observation and tests.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday that more studies were needed on infections in cats, including how they shed the virus in their environment.

The WHO asked Austria to provide more detail on the cats, adding that it was potentially significant if an animal could contract the virus and not show any symptoms of illness.

Johann Thalhammer, a professor at Vienna's veterinary university who is now monitoring the cats, said he could not confirm that they did not have any symptoms of the virus.

"There were no symptoms that the people in the sanctuary noticed," Thalhammer told Reuters. "How exactly they were observing the cats in the sanctuary I don't know."

"What we are looking for now is: are there more cats testing positive? Are those which are infected showing any symptoms that can be correlated to the virus?," he added.

Bird flu can wipe out poultry flocks in the space of 48 hours and can also infect people who come into close contact with infected birds. It has killed at least 95 people in Asia and the Middle East since late 2003.

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This is a cause for concern if those cats are doing the same thing that occurs in humans! First tests are positive, then negative! Scary!Meewee
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tested twice as positive then tested negative on the third time around leaves me to believe that this virus doesn't live in the dead for very long it either finds a new host or just simply dies out.

Some viruses take two weeks to die some live for hours and thats it.  Could it possibly be one of this situations or the government forced them to say no infected cat

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What I would like to know is how the cats who were not in contact with the sick birds became infected? That indicates that the virus is air-borne and that scares me silly! Plus what about the workers in there? are they doing testing on them also?

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