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mugwump · 07-18-2006, 08:02

Research from NAMRU-3. Thank God for the US Navy, about the only group worth anything...

Qinghai-like H5N1 from Domestic Cats, Northern Iraq

Significant on many levels: cats are second only to primates in their similarity to human respiratory and receptor systems (pigs are a close third apparently, I always thought they were more similar -- live and learn); there are 60 million feral cats in the US and 50 million "outside" domestic cats and all hunt/eat wild birds; cat-to-cat infection is extremely efficient.

Obviously there will be implications if you have an "outside" cat and live near a flyway after H5N1 spreads to N. Am.

07-18-2006, 08:02	#250
mugwump Area Commander Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,403	Research from NAMRU-3. Thank God for the US Navy, about the only group worth anything... Qinghai-like H5N1 from Domestic Cats, Northern Iraq Significant on many levels: cats are second only to primates in their similarity to human respiratory and receptor systems (pigs are a close third apparently, I always thought they were more similar -- live and learn); there are 60 million feral cats in the US and 50 million "outside" domestic cats and all hunt/eat wild birds; cat-to-cat infection is extremely efficient. Obviously there will be implications if you have an "outside" cat and live near a flyway after H5N1 spreads to N. Am.
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