If pandemic hits, cats should be kept inside.
"The Osterhaus team acknowledge that no-one knows if an infected cat can pass on H5N1 to humans.
Just as unknown is whether the animal, by harbouring the virus, can help it to mutate into a pandemic form -- a pathogen that is not only lethal for humans but contagious, too.
But, they say, this risk cannot be ruled out, and precautions should thus be incorporated into the guidelines of the WHO, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)."
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1808386
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=133863
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/April/theworld_April157.xml§ion=theworld&col=
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