Worries about the avian influenza strain, H5N1, that's circulating in Asia have ratcheted up another notch. A paper published online by Science this week (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1102287) confirms that the virus can infect cats, and that felines can transmit the virus to other cats as well—and perhaps to humans, according to one of the study's authors, Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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