Diego UrgelésMay 3, 2024
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More than half of cats on farm died after drinking milk from cows infected with bird flu https://phys.org/news/2024-05-cats-farm-died-cows-infected.html #science
More than half of cats on farm died after drinking milk from cows infected with bird flu

In yet another sign that bird flu is spreading widely among mammals, a new report finds more than half of cats at the first Texas dairy farm to have cows test positive for bird flu this spring died after drinking raw milk.

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May 1, 2024 at 4:19pmMastoFeed
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The poor cats. What was the person that fed the cats the milk thinking?!

Cats shouldn't be fed cow milk, and certainly not raw milk during an outbreak of bird flu in cows.

Edit: From the journal article:
"In >1 dairy farms in Texas, deaths occurred in domestic cats fed raw colostrum and milk from sick cows that were in the hospital parlor*. "

They knew the cows were sick...
😡

* hospital parlor - pen for sick cows on a dairy farm