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Could cats catch a pandemic flu from humans?

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sugarquill

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Hi,

I don't know if I'm posting this question in the right forum...

I have read that some experts fear humans could get the "bird flu" from cats, eventually. Personnally, I don't worry about that: my three cats are not allowed to get out! But inversely, if we, humans, were faced with a pandemic flu derived from H5N1, could our beloved pets catch the virus from us???

It is just a question I have had in mind for a long time. Not nearly as worrying as my kids getting the flu or not having enough to eat after a food shortage...

(:oops: Please excuse my English: it is not my mother tongue!!!)

Sugarquill
 
Re: Could cats catch a pandemic flu from humans?

Welcome Sugarquill!

I do not think there have been any tests done to see if cats can catch H5N1 from humans. I would not rule it out.

Cats can transmit to other cats. So if one of your cats gets it then it can infect the other cats.

What is your first language?
 
Re: Could cats catch a pandemic flu from humans?

in a human H5N1-pandemic I'd assume, yes.

Respiratory cat to cat and tiger to tiger were reported.
Most tigers got it
from eating infected chickens
 
Re: Could cats catch a pandemic flu from humans?

Hi, and thank you for answering so fast!

I'm French-speaking... from the province of Quebec...

Near our house there is a little lake, on which one or two families of Canada geese plus a few ducks like to stay all summer. Everybody find them cute, but not when we discover their droppings in the parks. I seem to be the only one scared by the potential of disease here... But there has been no dead bird nearby, so I shouldn't worry about that!

As for the cats... I just hope the flu virus variant which will get pandemic will not be deadly both to us and to cats. For if there are no more cats in cities and in the country, mice and rats could be the start of another plague.
 
Re: Could cats catch a pandemic flu from humans?

Pandemic flu at that point would be considered a human disease, whether or not a cat can catch it from us is unknown. H5N1 in it's present form is deadly to felines. However hopefully that will change as it becomes deadly to us. I sure hope so as I have two beautiful Siamese.
 
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