Study Finds Bird-Flu Virus Can Spread Among Cats
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The avian influenza virus that has spread among poultry in Southeast Asia and infected some people there has also crossed another species barrier to infect cats.
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Airline travel has a significant effect on the spread of influenza, a new study reports.
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Scientists say they have identified a key reason why bird flu has so far not hit humans hards.
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A rare case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu being passed between humans is reported by Chinese officials.
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Ducks also spread bird flu, increasing  the risk to humans from a virus that has killed 32 people in  Thailand and Vietnam this year, the World Health Organization  (WHO) said on Friday.
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The bird flu epidemic in the Indian state of West Bengal spreads  closer to the capital, Calcutta, officials say.
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Cats can get the avian influenza  virus decimating bird flocks across Asia, which means pets are  at risk of getting and spreading the disease -- and may serve  as a mixing pot for dangerous new mutations, Dutch researchers  reported on Thursday.
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Five people in Japan may have been infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among chickens in February, but there is no risk they will develop symptoms and no
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Cats could cause a pandemic of bird flu in humans, according to a new study. Research published in Science found that domestic cats can become infected with avian influenza A (H5N1) virus by feeding on infected
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Scientists believe they have found some of the steps needed for bird flu to turn into a pandemic strain.
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Five people in Japan may have been infected with the bird flu virus after an outbreak among chickens in February, but there is no risk they will develop symptoms and no chance of more infections, the government said on Saturday.
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Veterinary experts have found a low-risk strain of bird flu in chickens which died on a farm in north Wales, the principality&#39;s chief vet said Thursday.
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Scientists have discovered the possible presence of bird flu in the United States &#151; in wild swans near the banks of Lake Erie &#151; but it does not appear to be the worrisome strain that the government has long feared.
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The World Health Organisation believes domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in Asia this year.
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Thai authorities say tests have confirmed 23 Tigers have died of bird flu at a private zoo in the eastern province of Chonburi. Thirty other tigers at the zoo, which houses hundreds of big cats, are said to be ill with the disease.
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&quot;That cats could so easily be infected and could transmit the infection to other cats means that in areas where poultry are infected with H5N1 virus, cats could act as vectors,&quot; said Thijs Kuiken, a veterinary pathologist in the department of virology at
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When bird flu infects people, the virus is more concentrated in the throat than the nose, the opposite of human flu. This finding may help doctors more quickly diagnose the bird flu in people.