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Deadly bird flu strain confirmed in German cat
Irish Examiner ^
| February 28th, 2006
| Unknown
Posted on 02/28/2006 7:28:20 AM PST by Termite_Commander
The H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed in a cat in Germany, the first time it has been positively identified in the country in an animal other than a bird, a national laboratory said today.
The cat was found on the northern island of Ruegen, where most of Germany’s more-than 100 cases of H5N1-infected wild birds have been found, the Friedrich Loeffler institute said.
No other details were immediately available.
TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avianinfluenza; birdflu; cat; germany; h5n1
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Meow?
To: Termite_Commander
Did they find the cat dead? After it ate a bird?? Did it die of bird flu, or just test positive because it had eaten a bird?
Sounds like a cat hater.
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posted on
02/28/2006 7:30:52 AM PST
by
Battle Axe
(Repent for the coming of the Lord is nigh!)
To: Termite_Commander
Kitty should have made sure the bird he ate was fully cooked.
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posted on
02/28/2006 7:30:57 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: Termite_Commander
That's what they are trying to promote.
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posted on
02/28/2006 7:31:22 AM PST
by
freekitty
To: Termite_Commander
That's what they are trying to promote.
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posted on
02/28/2006 7:31:35 AM PST
by
freekitty
To: Battle Axe
Rather than attempt to actually answer any of your questions, I'll just cheat and use the last line of the article.
No other details were immediately available.
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posted on
02/28/2006 7:32:11 AM PST
by
Termite_Commander
(Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
To: Termite_Commander
You have to be a dam fool to keep bird/rat eating cats as pets... Do you know where those paws have been?
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
02/28/2006 7:33:26 AM PST
by
quantim
(Always aligned, never maligned, but sometimes out of phase.)
To: Termite_Commander
Poor Sylvester, he finallky gets the bird and dies from a bad case of "Tweeties Revenge."
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posted on
02/28/2006 7:37:01 AM PST
by
Mac94
To: Termite_Commander
Call out the VIKING KITTIES! This series and HUGH!.......
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posted on
02/28/2006 7:40:49 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: brainstem223
"You have to be a dam fool to keep bird/rat eating cats as pets"
How do you recommend we deal with rodent infestations?
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:25:05 AM PST
by
passionfruit
("...I think the left wing is turning into a cult... If you disagree you're a traitor")
To: Mac94
I tawt I taw a puddy cat! I did! I did!
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:32:24 AM PST
by
passionfruit
("...I think the left wing is turning into a cult... If you disagree you're a traitor")
To: passionfruit
Use something about a bazillion times more effective....;D
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:55:49 AM PST
by
Salamander
(Cursed With Second Sight)
To: Termite_Commander
ok Elvis - your grounded.
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posted on
02/28/2006 8:58:41 AM PST
by
globalheater
(There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare - Sun Tzu)
To: Judith Anne
Well Judith, I told you that mamalian polymorphisms in species other than human would be the issue to watch, see also reports about tigers in asia......
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posted on
02/28/2006 9:01:41 AM PST
by
Kelly_2000
( Because they stand on a wall and say nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch)
To: Termite_Commander
Through his attorney, the cat announced that he had no comment on how he became exposed to the bird flu.
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posted on
02/28/2006 9:03:54 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: Judith Anne
Look at this post I made here: Pandemic Preparedness
Posted by Kelly_2000 to Kelly_2000
On News/Activism 02/15/2006 4:40:25 AM PST · 67 of 120
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posted on
02/28/2006 9:10:55 AM PST
by
Kelly_2000
( Because they stand on a wall and say nothing is going to hurt you tonight. Not on my watch)
To: Kelly_2000
Yes indeed. You were prescient, Kelly.
One final point to make Judith, keep an eye on sentinel species. In fact H5N1 is acquiring mammalian polymorphisms this is seen in tigers, (Vietnam) mice etc. The adaption to human will not come via humans IMO but rather through alternative mammalian hosts.
I remember months ago, the Thai tigers dying at the zoo, after being fed infected chickens...as I recall, though, not every tiger that got sick at the chickens. I wondered then about tiger-to-tiger infection...
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posted on
02/28/2006 10:27:32 AM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: passionfruit
Quit dropping food crumbs off the dinner table. Keep the doors closed, not wide open like they do in Alabama, and get some potion pellets and traps.
Keeping an animal more disgusting than its prey is fundamentally dumb.
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