This is just kind of freaky...
Alarm over the spread of bird flu grew on Wednesday after Germany reported a dead cat infected with the virus, while France sought to curb restrictions on its poultry exports.
I can see how this could happen, if your cat is a hunter and is outdoors a bit. Hunting down critters like birds. So...then, you have your cat come indoors and he sleeps in your bed...maybe snuggling up on your pillow. This could be a big story...
Meanwhile, thousands of baby chicks have died suddenly on a farm here in GZ. The government says they didn't die of H5N1...rather, coccidiosis, a parasitic disease.
Zhang, a farmer from Chendong Village in Zhongluotan Township in Guangzhou's Baiyun District, purchased 11,000 chicks in late January, but some began dying from the middle of last month.
"Towards the end of the month, 100 chicks were dying every day," said Zhang, who has been raising chickens for more than 15 years. But he now plans to give up raising chicks for the moment.
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