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A small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the current U.S. outbreak.
The strain of bird flu currently circulating has not adapted to efficiently spread among people.
There have been no known cases of cat-to-human transmission during the current outbreak.
There isn’t a lot of research on transmission of bird flu from companion animals like cats or dogs to humans.
The more infections you have in animals, “the more your luck is potentially going to run out” Most people who have caught H5N1 are agricultural workers who had direct contact with infected poultry or cattle.
There's very little people can do about the H5N1 circulating in wild birds.
But there's a lot to do to keep the virus out of their homes.
Don't feed your pet raw food or unpasteurized milk or contact wild birds that could be infected.
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