The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed 130 cases of H5N1 avian influenza in domestic cats spread across 23 states, ...

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 ...

The bird flu outbreak, which has been detected statewide in animals including ducks, geese, squirrels, foxes, raccoons and bobcats, now also is being found in household cats in New York ...

Bird flu wasn’t on Tim Hanson’s mind when he fed his cats specialty pet food containing raw chicken. “You go to the pet shop and it was the premium raw food,” he said. “It was finely ...