But should cat parents and big-cat caregivers be especially worried about the rise in bird flu cases and transmission? The risk of felines developing bird flu infections remains relatively low.

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther all died after being ...

to bird flu just days apart in November. He had been giving them raw milk, believing it to contain extra nutrients. A third cat, Big Boy, also got sick after drinking the milk and wound up in ...

We still don’t have big studies available to understand ... Q: What are authorities doing about the emerging risk of free-roaming cats as a bird flu spreader? A: CDPH has not issued H5N1 ...

During a call with U.S. doctors this month, one CDC official noted that there is a seasonality to bird flu: Cases peak in the ...

The lion, Pataudi, had been brought to the Kanpur zoo from Gorakhpur zoo where a tigress died on May 7 and her samples tested positive for bird flu.