Michelle Milican
H5N1 Bird Flu has spread over millions of poultry birds all over the country and more than 900 dairy flocks in 16 states. According to US centers for control and prevention of diseases, there is also 67 certified cases In people, with one death. Now, officials are warning about the deaths in cats.
According to CBS News ReportThe American Food and Drug Administration says that currently 13 households are familiar with domestic cats who have either become ill or have died due to bird flu. It is in addition to a foreign cat in a house and unknown cats in two different shelters. These cases were recorded in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington State.
Diseases have been linked to contaminated raw food products. The FDA says it is currently working to detect the source of the outbreak. Until then, the agency has ordered unruly or unruly dogs and cat -food manufacturers to update their food safety plans to include the risk of extreme pathogenic avenue influenza.
In a statement, FDA Said“Scientific information is being developed, but at the moment it is found that H5N1 can be transferred to cats and dogs when they eat products from infected poultry or livestock (eg, unruly milk, cooked meat, or unruly eggs). There are no one in the processing phase.
Although this order is related to dog food, at the same time, there have been no certified cases in dogs in the United States. It is not as fatal as it is in cats. Even the species of big cats suffer from more serious illness.
FDA Is excited Pet food manufacturers are able to use ingredients from healthy flocks or herds and use processing steps that are able to disable heat treatment such as viruses.
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