Yesterday, the UN Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) issued a warning to keep cats away from areas infected by the bird flu. The Agency has evidence from Indonesia that cats can catch and carry the flu virus from eating infected animals. In the past year 30 countries reported bird flu in birds. So far the FAO reports show infected cats in Thailand, Iraq, Russia, the European Union, and Turkey

The agency fears that the cats could become a host and mutate the flu into a form that could cause a human pandemic.
Source: Environmental News Network, , February 9.