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11-04-2009, 07:16 PM
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Ames, IA cat diagnosed with H1N1
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11-04-2009, 07:26 PM
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1.) The cat contracted H1N1 from the owners who were sick with the disease. Can the transfer be in the other direction?
2.) It's a cat. It survived. Crap.
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11-04-2009, 07:58 PM
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My understanding is that the flus that are typical for cats & dogs don't pass to humans. Who knows with H1N1. It can pass back & forth between humans & pigs.
...I'm not comfortable with risking the survival of the human race with a possible swinecat flu. I'm thinking we need to play it safe and kill the cat. It's the only way to be sure. 
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11-04-2009, 08:40 PM
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...this is odd...pigs, birds, humans....the damned virus can mutate in an animal too, yes, I would kill and burn the cat....
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11-04-2009, 08:55 PM
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It was found in ferrets and turkeys too I believe....
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11-04-2009, 10:11 PM
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11-04-2009, 10:30 PM
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Bite me...I loves my kitties.
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11-04-2009, 11:06 PM
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11-05-2009, 12:26 AM
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It's quite worrisome when a human virus can infect a cat. Not in one single case like this (simple quarantine solves it), but that the virus has this property. We share illnesses with rats, actually we resemble rats very much, it's one of the reasons rats are lab animals. Cats are developed not to carry illness brough on by their prey. If they would be susceptible, they would die en masse, and not carry that property to their offspring. This is how nature made them.
So it's not common cats and humans share the same illness, and it's not a very good sign at all. Black death, for example, was a novel illness, and it practically killed every species. Bird flu can affect cats too. This is usually an indicator of a novel virus, when several species are not capable to fend themselves against it, and usually that also means it's pretty virulent too.
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11-05-2009, 08:55 AM
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This thread is friggen hilarious ...
On a more serious note, there are some things that are of concern now with this development. 1) The virus IS mutating 2) The possibility now exists that you can get H1N1 from your pet I've always said on this forum the scarey part of H1N1 is that it has DNA from Birds, Pigs and Humans. By having this profile, it can more easily mutate and bring flu from those types of animals back to us - Avian or Bird Flu for example. Now, there is no deadly cat virus that I know of, but the fact that the flu is mutating so quickly, does bring us closer to the Bird Flu being passed from Human to Human. If that were to happen, it would be very bad in terms of impact on humans.
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11-05-2009, 11:49 AM
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Every so often a piece of news along these lines squeaks through the mass-media jumble but quickly disappears. A particularly troubling example is a German study that found women who have a dog are twice as likely to get breast cancer. Some diseases associated with cats: Toxoplasmosis Rabies Ringworm Hookworm Tapeworm Plague and now H1N1 
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11-05-2009, 12:18 PM
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How many other cats have it that we don't know about? Its not like they are testing every cat...or have the resources to do so....
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11-05-2009, 12:34 PM
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Ya I beleive they tried that before
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11-05-2009, 12:48 PM
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I like my cat better than I like most people.......You'll be disposed of before that lazy old alley cat of mine will....
Viruses cross species lines all the time. If you know everything you could catch from your pet most likely you wouldn't have one.
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