Repost about whether cats can spread bird flu.

How did bird flu come from? "Avian influenza" is a disease caused by a large class of viruses. There are seven kinds of this virus, most of which only cause mutual transmission among birds and cause diseases. Some species spread among birds, while others mainly infect wild birds. In other words, the vast majority of avian influenza viruses will not have any impact on humans or other animals. But one of them, H5N 1 subspecies, is a mutant virus, which can spread not only among birds, but also from birds to humans. The main way of communication-this is probably what everyone cares about most. Many countries and regions in the world have experienced cases of avian influenza caused by H5N 1 virus. So far, all cases have been caused by direct human contact with the blood (slaughtering process), feces and other excreta (feeding process) of sick birds. Last year, a cat was infected with avian influenza in Thailand. It is also a cat that lives in a chicken farm and has had close contact with sick birds. In other words, people, cats and other animals will be infected with avian influenza virus unless they are in close contact with sick birds. I have repeatedly emphasized "close contact with sick birds", which is really important. Careful TX may find that the word "human-to-human transmission" is often mentioned in reports on bird flu epidemic. What is interpersonal communication? In other words, a person has bird flu, and a healthy person has contacted the patient and is infected. In other words, the avian influenza virus can spread through human-to-human contact, rather than being infected through close contact with sick birds. This detail is very critical, because once "human-to-human transmission" occurs, avian influenza will really become a very serious infectious disease, and the number of people who may be infected will expand from limited "people who are in close contact with sick birds" to unlimited human beings. Fortunately, so far, the epidemic situation of avian influenza in China is still in the yellow warning stage, that is to say, poultry has spread to humans, but there has been no human-to-human transmission. Therefore, as long as you don't eat undercooked poultry (beware of those who love game) and don't touch the body fluids of sick poultry (such as blood and feces)-in fact, you don't raise or kill them, how can you touch them? -You won't get bird flu. There is no evidence that you will get infected with avian influenza virus through contact with sick humans and other animals. Because the virus has not mutated to spread between people or between people and other animals. Smart TX can already find the answer to this question from the previous paragraph. Cats or other animals, like humans, can only be infected through close contact with sick birds, but not other people or animals. Because there is no "person-to-person". What's more, our cat is not free-range. They don't touch poultry. How did they get infected with bird flu? Maybe from the soles of our shoes? Then go home and disinfect the soles first. Even if they are infected with bird flu, they will not infect us, because there is no "human-to-human" variant! ! As far as bird flu is concerned, many media have to talk about "popular science knowledge" about "flu" in addition to the official news released by the Ministry of Health. In fact, avian influenza and influenza are basically different diseases caused by completely different viruses. Bird flu should actually be understood as chicken plague! These irresponsible behaviors of the media confuse the concepts of influenza and avian influenza, which undoubtedly has a hint to people's psychology, that is, avian influenza, like influenza, is easily infected! Even think that bird flu is a kind of flu that can be transmitted from chickens or animals, and the mortality rate is very high! An extreme example is that the neighborhood committee in a surrounding area of Shanghai actually called on residents to get flu shots to prevent bird flu! It's really a landslide on earth! This has caused people to panic blindly. TX people remember not to just talk about cats when promoting with people around them. That will give the impression that there is no silver here. As long as you show disdain for newspapers and even TV news, people will have the mentality of "the emperor's new clothes" The more you criticize and ridicule the media reports, and give a few more professional examples, the less people around you dare to refute you. They will be afraid that they believe that the media will be considered stupid and looked down upon by you and others! The aunts in the neighborhood Committee put forward the idea of killing cats to prevent bird flu, which is undoubtedly against our Ministry of Health. Because the Ministry of Health told the World Health Organization that bird flu in China has not spread from person to person. Tell those old ladies that their propaganda is aimed at discrediting the China government, violating the government's principles and policies of stabilizing people's hearts and the overall situation, and creating unnecessary panic. If this is known by the superior leader, it will be criticized! People who are criticized as "people with ulterior motives who are afraid of chaos in the world"! Of course, this threat may be effective for aunts with a little brain. They know that it is not good to slander the government. Aunt who has no brains at all, I'm afraid it's invalid. Appendix: Media medical jokes 1. CCTV, news broadcast: At the beginning of 2 1 century, it was declared that human beings invented a new drug and overcame the difficulties of schizophrenia! The name of this medicine is chlorpromazine; God knows! By the beginning of 2 1 century, chlorpromazine had been used to treat schizophrenia for 60 years, and its improved products had reached the third generation! 2. Dragon TV, Dragon TV News: In 2002, it was claimed that a drug had special effects on Parkinson's disease, commonly known as Alzheimer's disease. What is commonly called Alzheimer's Harmo's disease is Alzheimer's Harmo's disease, which Reagan had. Parkinson's disease is commonly known as tremor-the kind that Grandpa Deng got. 3. The advertisements of health products are filled with major media: Only series, various deep-sea fish oil, brain yellow/platinum and so on. You know, the profit of drugs is much higher than that of health care products. Why don't big bosses push these "good things" with special effects on various diseases to the pharmaceutical market? Because they can't get the batch number of "drug prefix" through the examination of the State Administration of Pharmaceutical Products. Only one batch of food can be sold. However, the media still broadcast advertisements of health care products that exaggerate the efficacy, and even affect the psychology of patients when they seek medical treatment, resulting in the consequences of not being able to see a doctor in time, not trusting drugs, and delaying their illness. Why? Because the advertising fee is huge!