{"id":20662,"date":"2025-01-23T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20662"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:23:39","slug":"cats-may-have-gotten-bird-flu-from-raw-pet-food-heres-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20662","title":{"rendered":"Cats May Have Gotten Bird Flu From Raw Pet Food. Here\u2019s What to Know."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cases have spurred new pet food safety rules and poultry surveillance efforts.<\/p>\n

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Federal officials who spent the last year grappling with a surge of bird flu infections in cows and people are now confronting a spate of new cases in cats, some of which have died after eating contaminated, uncooked pet food.<\/p>\n

Since early December, more than two dozen cases<\/a> have been confirmed in domestic cats in the United States. Officials have linked some of the cases to virus-laden raw milk, which is known to pose a serious risk to cats. But other cats fell ill after eating commercially available raw pet food \u2014 the first known cases in the country linked to pet food.<\/p>\n

The cases have already prompted one pet food manufacturer to recall some of its products. And last week, federal officials announced new pet food safety rules and poultry surveillance efforts.<\/p>\n

Bird flu \u201cis an emerging contaminant in animal food,\u201d Dr. Steve Grube, a chief medical officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said at a briefing last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Still, experts and officials said that there was no need for pet owners to panic. There is no evidence that infected cats have passed the virus on to people, and the cases have been linked specifically to unpasteurized milk and uncooked meat or poultry products.<\/p>\n

Most commercial pet foods are cooked or heat-treated.<\/em> \u201cThe heat of processing should be enough to inactivate the virus,\u201d said Phyllis Entis, a food safety microbiologist who worked for Canada\u2019s food safety agency.<\/p>\n

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The cases have spurred new pet food safety rules and poultry surveillance efforts.Federal officials who spent the last year grappling with a surge of bird flu infections in cows and people are now confronting a spate of new cases in cats, some of which have died after eating contaminated, uncooked pet food.Since early December, more than two dozen cases have been confirmed in domestic cats in the United States. Officials have linked some of the cases to virus-laden raw milk, which is known to pose a serious risk to cats. But other cats fell ill after eating commercially available raw pet food \u2014 the first known cases in the country linked to pet food.The cases have already prompted one pet food manufacturer to recall some of its products. And last week, federal officials announced new pet food safety rules and poultry surveillance efforts.Bird flu \u201cis an emerging contaminant in animal food,\u201d Dr. Steve Grube, a chief medical officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said at a briefing last week.Still, experts and officials said that there was no need for pet owners to panic. There is no evidence that infected cats have passed the virus on to people, and the cases have been linked specifically to unpasteurized milk and uncooked meat or poultry products.Most commercial pet foods are cooked or heat-treated. \u201cThe heat of processing should be enough to inactivate the virus,\u201d said Phyllis Entis, a food safety microbiologist who worked for Canada\u2019s food safety agency.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20664,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20665,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20662\/revisions\/20665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}