{"id":22573,"date":"2025-02-20T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22573"},"modified":"2025-02-20T23:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:25:48","slug":"dairy-workers-may-have-passed-bird-flu-to-pet-cats-cdc-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22573","title":{"rendered":"Dairy Workers May Have Passed Bird Flu to Pet Cats, CDC Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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But the study, whose publication was delayed by a pause in public communications by the agency, leaves key questions unanswered.<\/p>\n

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Two dairy workers in Michigan may have transmitted bird flu to their pet cats last May, suggests a new study<\/a> published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

In one household, infected cats may also have passed the virus to other people in the home, but limited evidence makes it difficult to ascertain the possibility.<\/p>\n

The results are from a study that was scheduled to be published in January but was delayed by the Trump administration\u2019s pause on communications from the C.D.C.<\/p>\n

A single data table from the new report briefly appeared online two weeks ago<\/a> in a paper on the wildfires in California, then quickly disappeared. That odd incident prompted calls from public health experts for the study\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new paper still leaves major questions unanswered, including how the cats first became infected and whether farmworkers spread the virus to the cats and to other people in the household, experts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we can say for sure if this is human-to-cat or cat-to-human or cat-from-something-else,\u201d said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health.<\/p>\n

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But the study, whose publication was delayed by a pause in public communications by the agency, leaves key questions unanswered.Two dairy workers in Michigan may have transmitted bird flu to their pet cats last May, suggests a new study published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.In one household, infected cats may also have passed the virus to other people in the home, but limited evidence makes it difficult to ascertain the possibility.The results are from a study that was scheduled to be published in January but was delayed by the Trump administration\u2019s pause on communications from the C.D.C.A single data table from the new report briefly appeared online two weeks ago in a paper on the wildfires in California, then quickly disappeared. That odd incident prompted calls from public health experts for the study\u2019s release.The new paper still leaves major questions unanswered, including how the cats first became infected and whether farmworkers spread the virus to the cats and to other people in the household, experts said.\u201cI don\u2019t think we can say for sure if this is human-to-cat or cat-to-human or cat-from-something-else,\u201d said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health.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":22575,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22573","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\/22573","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=22573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22576,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22573\/revisions\/22576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}