Medical News & Perspectives
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2807891
July26,2023
JAMA.Published online July 26, 2023. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.14442
In one of the latest developments in the ongoing bird flu outbreaks, 28domestic cats in Polandhave tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, which has decimated global poultry populations, caused mass deaths among wild birds, and infectedmore than 40 mammalian species.
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How the felines were exposed to the virus is under investigation, the World Health Organization (WHO)reported. The cats were located in different areas of Poland, and several had no access to the outdoors, where they might have been exposed to infected animals.
No humans appear to have been infected in Poland’s domestic cat outbreak. In fact, although 900 human infections with H5N1 viruses have been reported globally over the past 3 decades, infections…
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