Addendum: A woman who owned one of the afflicted cats provided samples of the raw chicken breast meat she bought at a major supermarket and fed to her cat. It tested positive for H5N1 flu and the virus was able to be cultured from the sample. Food is now the prime suspect as the central source of the outbreak.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising. There weren't a lot of other reasonable possibilities and this H5N1 flu has been rampaging through both wild and domestic bird populations.
I hope the high heat during the canning process of wet cat food kills the virus. Is canned cat food popular in the UK? Or do people prefer to feed them raw?
Canned cat food is popular, but some people feed their cats raw food. We feed our dogs raw food, and they have been thriving on it. Now we need to check what's happening in the chicken industry here to decide whether to cut out the flavors that involve birds (chicken, turkey, duck).
Addendum: A woman who owned one of the afflicted cats provided samples of the raw chicken breast meat she bought at a major supermarket and fed to her cat. It tested positive for H5N1 flu and the virus was able to be cultured from the sample. Food is now the prime suspect as the central source of the outbreak.
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I guess it shouldn't be surprising. There weren't a lot of other reasonable possibilities and this H5N1 flu has been rampaging through both wild and domestic bird populations.
I hope the high heat during the canning process of wet cat food kills the virus. Is canned cat food popular in the UK? Or do people prefer to feed them raw?
Canned cat food is popular, but some people feed their cats raw food. We feed our dogs raw food, and they have been thriving on it. Now we need to check what's happening in the chicken industry here to decide whether to cut out the flavors that involve birds (chicken, turkey, duck).