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Research shows that cats are susceptible to H5N1 bird flu and many have died from the disease in Asia.

I guess it was inevitable that the finger of suspicion would point to our feline friends - afterall they enjoy hunting and will find a dying bird easy prey. Having had a nibble at a bird riddled with the H5N1 virus, they then come into our home and decide that they want to be our friend again.

Their viral “treat” becomes our viral nightmare.

There is no vaccine to defend cats againt avian flu and, in the UK at least, no one is talking about a mass cull of cats (imagine the outcry if that was a reality), however the study does raise concerns about how mammals with close ties to humans can put us at risk from a potent virus such as H5N1.