Re: California raw cat food tested positive for H5N1 in NY

On 3/31/2025 5:01 PM, RonO wrote:

On 3/31/2025 4:15 PM, RonO wrote:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/tests-confirm- h5n1- avian-flu-virus-recently-recalled-raw-food-cats
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Some New York cats died of avian influenza, and the cat food that they had eaten was made in California.  It tested positive for H5N1, but they aren't saying if it is the dairy virus or not.  It might be that the chicken in the pet food had been infected, and sold for processing before symptoms were noticed.  It is hard not to miss an infected flock because the birds die within a few days of being infected.  It was confirmed to be H5N1 at both Cornell and the USDA, but they are not saying what genotype.  Poultry farms in California are being infected by the dairy virus (genotype B3.13).
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Another Dairy herd in Idaho was confirmed to be positive last week. They still are not releasing the genotype of the virus infecting the most recent dairy herds, since Nevada and Arizona herds had been confirmed to have been infected by genotype D1.1 at the end of Feb.
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Ron Okimoto
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NBC news has a piece on cats and avian influenza.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/bird-flu/bird-flu-in-cats-rcna198374
 Ron Okimoto
 

For some reason another California herd has been added to the USDA database.  It is claimed to have been confirmed last Friday like the Idaho herd, but did not show up in the database for the CIDRAP article yesterday.
Ron Okimoto