Yes, and they think that it was from drinking the milk – they were drinking infected milk – but they don’t know absolutely whether the cats could have gotten it from another source, like eating a dead bird or something. I read some article saying that they didn’t think that that was the case, but couldn’t rule it out.
Weren’t there cats showing signs of infection from drinking the milk like blindness and what not?
Yes, and they think that it was from drinking the milk – they were drinking infected milk – but they don’t know absolutely whether the cats could have gotten it from another source, like eating a dead bird or something. I read some article saying that they didn’t think that that was the case, but couldn’t rule it out.
Here’s one of the articles, also from ars
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/
Over half the cats died