Latest recent bird flu, infected cats and more
There are no new human flu cases of the bird flu, and birds infections are low in March. Cats are following infections, and new research is growing in virus concerns
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We’re rounding regularly Latest news about bird flu. Here’s what happened recently.
At a glance
Human cases: No new case reported. 70 confirmed and seven safe cases from 2024.
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Poultry cases: February 12.7 million was infected with domestic bird birds or decreased in response to an infection. Number is only half of January. So far, March 220,000 birds have been killed.
Dairy Cattle Cases: California has notified six new flocks of milk-infected milk infected by bird flu, to be 983 flocks contaminated since today’s explosions.
Infections in cats
Homemade flu infections in household cats Stay, and there have been some new developments on topics.
USA Plant inspection service of the US agriculture department. The office controlled by anti-housing and wild swords, has not announced that new bird detection detection has begun in mammals in March. Several local officials, however, have announced new cases in pet cats. Reports have two cats in Kansas, specified exposure tracks, external cats In New Jerseycats who drank raw milk In Los Angeles And the cats ate raw food in Washington State and Oregon.
In cases of Washington State and Oregon, a Washington based company on March 1 is called Wild Coast Raw His voluntarily remembered some food of his raw cat H5N1 virus after finding the product. That was at least a third case of raw pet foods in the last months of the contaminated pet contaminated. Experts encouraged people to protect the animal from the bird flu from keeping them inside and they do not feed raw food or milk.
According to US centers for disease control and prevention, Symptoms of bird flu Included, fever, fatigue, poor hunger, red or swelling, nose or eyes, including discharge, breathing and neurological effects, vibrants and blindness.
New research on virus
Scientists have recently taken two interesting discoveries around the genetics of birds’ genetics and potential transmission.
The first was reported on a paper published Emerging microbes and infections he The bird farm polluted bird flu analysis British Columbia 2024. By the end of the year. In this area, birds in North America dying virus took a mutation with the viruses of the local bird flu, less. This mutation is located in the tenses of anti-flu tensions in OSELTAMIVIBI, the common treatment for the human flu sold under the Tamiflu brand. Mutation detection arouses concerns, that strains would be difficult to spread and infect humans wider, relieving it would be difficult.
The second discovery was described in a paper paper that is currently waiting for peer reviews and publications. Investigation, researchers confirmed that Pigs can cause pollution of bird flu virus That is most circulating in the US dairy cattle. That’s because the pigs are Key species for flu transmission; They are weak in the face of infection, both the varieties of flu birds and humans. If the pig is infected with flu viruses and humans, viruses could be intermixed, creating a better strain of birds to supply humans better.
Bird feeder questions
In general, experts advise prudence around the wild dead birds. But with high levels of bird flu in the wildlife circulating, we asked bird feeders to wild animals or dangerous sources of exposure to humans. In 2022, the U.S. Agriculture Department recommended people who remove birds that remove food, but additional orientation has been October. Krysten Schuler, assuming that Cornell University diseases, do not have birds, you probably don’t need to remove your food because it doesn’t affect the equal birds flu.
The birds visited visits are often known as scientifically known scientifically known. “We don’t see it in the passages you would find with bird feed (very high-pathogen flu),” says Schuler. Recommends His usual maintenance tips: Clean food two times a week or so to avoid a range of infections and call the State Wildlife Management Agency to report dead birds.
