{"id":270693,"date":"2024-12-25T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/25\/bird-flu-kills-20-big-cats-at-us-animal-sanctuary\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T22:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:40:21","slug":"bird-flu-kills-20-big-cats-at-us-animal-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/25\/bird-flu-kills-20-big-cats-at-us-animal-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu kills 20 big cats at US animal sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                       \n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty big cats &#8211; including a Bengal tiger and four cougars &#8211; have died of bird flu over the past several weeks at an animal sanctuary in the state of Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This tragedy has deeply affected our team, and we are all grieving the loss of these incredible animals,&#8221; the Wild Felid Advocacy Center of Washington wrote in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The devastating viral infection, carried by wild birds, spreads primarily through respiratory secretions and bird-to-bird contact and can also be contracted by mammals that ingest birds or other products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sanctuary is under quarantine and is closed to the public to prevent the spread of the virus, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The animals died between late November and mid-December, the sanctuary&#8217;s director, Mark Mathews, told the\u00a0New York Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve never had anything like it; they usually die basically of old age,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not something like this, it&#8217;s a pretty wicked virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news comes as bird flu continues to spread among cattle and poultry in the US, while also severely infecting at least one human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sanctuary said it had lost five African serval cats, four bobcats, two Canada lynx and a Bengal tiger, among others. Only 17 cats now remain at the Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Cats are particularly vulnerable to this virus, which can cause subtle initial symptoms but progress rapidly, often resulting in death within 24 hours due to pneumonia-like conditions,&#8221; the sanctuary said in its\u00a0Facebook statement\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bird flu has long infected poultry flocks in the US. But the virus began to infect cattle in the US for the first time in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And since April 2024, there have been a total of 61 human cases of bird flu reported in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CDC says that the risk to the general public remains low, and there has been no sustained human-to-human transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most have reported mild symptoms, though one person was taken to the hospital with a severe case of bird flu in Louisiana this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom declared an emergency over the outbreak among the state&#8217;s dairy cows to help the government have the &#8220;resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to this outbreak&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n                <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n               \n <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                        \n\n    \n                                 \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty big cats &#8211; including a Bengal tiger and four cougars &#8211; have died of bird flu over the past several weeks at an animal sanctuary in the state of Washington. &#8220;This tragedy has deeply affected our team, and we are all grieving the loss of these incredible animals,&#8221; the Wild Felid Advocacy Center of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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