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Zoonoses Public Health. 2011 Feb 15. doi: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01390.x. [Epub ahead of print]
Fatal Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza A Virus Infection in a Pennsylvania Domestic Cat.
Campagnolo ER, Rankin JT, Daverio SA, Hunt EA, Lute JR, Tewari D, Acland HM, Ostrowski SR, Moll ME, Urdaneta VV, Ostroff SM.
Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Office of Science and Public Health Practice, Atlanta, GA, USA Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Epidemiology, Harrisburg, PA, USA Williamsport West Veterinary Hospital, Williamsport, PA, USA Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Community Health Systems, Williamsport, PA, USA Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Laboratories, Exton, PA, USA Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Pennsylvania Veterinary Laboratory, Harrisburg, PA, USA.
Abstract
We report the earliest recognized fatality associated with laboratory-confirmed pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza in a domestic cat in the United States. The 12-year old, indoor cat died on 6 November 2009 after exposure to multiple family members who had been ill with influenza-like illness during the peak period of the fall wave of pH1N1 in Pennsylvania during late October 2009. The clinical presentation, history, radiographic, laboratory and necropsy findings are presented to assist veterinary care providers in understanding the features of this disease in cats and the potential for transmission of infection to pets from infected humans.
Published 2011. This article is a US Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
PMID:
21824345
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21824345
Fatal Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza A Virus Infection in a Pennsylvania Domestic Cat.
Campagnolo ER, Rankin JT, Daverio SA, Hunt EA, Lute JR, Tewari D, Acland HM, Ostrowski SR, Moll ME, Urdaneta VV, Ostroff SM.
Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Office of Science and Public Health Practice, Atlanta, GA, USA Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Epidemiology, Harrisburg, PA, USA Williamsport West Veterinary Hospital, Williamsport, PA, USA Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Community Health Systems, Williamsport, PA, USA Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Laboratories, Exton, PA, USA Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Pennsylvania Veterinary Laboratory, Harrisburg, PA, USA.
Abstract
We report the earliest recognized fatality associated with laboratory-confirmed pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza in a domestic cat in the United States. The 12-year old, indoor cat died on 6 November 2009 after exposure to multiple family members who had been ill with influenza-like illness during the peak period of the fall wave of pH1N1 in Pennsylvania during late October 2009. The clinical presentation, history, radiographic, laboratory and necropsy findings are presented to assist veterinary care providers in understanding the features of this disease in cats and the potential for transmission of infection to pets from infected humans.
Published 2011. This article is a US Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
PMID:
21824345
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21824345