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By pet-admin, March 31, 2006 12:04 pm

The study bolstered anecdotal evidence that domestic cats and captive wild felids can be infected with this deadly strain of avian influenza by eating infected chickens. The findings raise new questions about the role cats may play in spreading the disease among poultry farms, and may suggest another route of human exposure to the virus, according to the study’s authors.Cats are born hunters.

In the study, led by Thijs Kuiken, a veterinary pathologist in the Department of Virology at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, one group of cats was intratracheally inoculated with H5N1 virus isolated from a human in Vietnam who died, another group of cats was exposed to other cats that had been inoculated with the virus, and a third group was fed chicks that had been inoculated with the virus. All three groups developed signs of disease, according to the study
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By pet-admin, March 28, 2006 7:13 pm

This is some useful tips if you choosing your dog’s name or cat’s name or other pets. 1 think that you must know that you will call your pet name hundred times.

Tip 1.

Pick a name that the pet can easily recognise. Animals respond better to one or two syllable names.
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