Saturday, March 04, 2006

H5N1 Kills German Cat

According to the Associated Press, the H5N1 strain of bird flu was confirmed Tuesday in a cat in Germany. The World Health Organization says it was the first time H5N1 has been positively identified in a mammal in Europe, though tigers and leopards in Thailand have previously had the strain.

The dead cat was apparently found on an island in the Baltic Sea where most of Germany's H5N1-infected wild birds have been found.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I read where the cat died because the cat ate a bird with H5N1,Mister /Tanaka will have change his "bird diet" to maybe Guapple's