Cat gets H5N1
2006-02-28 17:15
Special Report
Hong Kong is on bird flu alert again after a wild bird found in a busy shopping area tested positive for the H5 strain of the avian flu virus.
Berlin - The H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed in a cat in Germany, the first time it has been positively identified in the country in an animal other than a bird, a national laboratory said on Tuesday.
The cat was found on the northern island of Ruegen, where most of Germany's more-than 100 cases of H5N1-infected wild birds have been found, the Friedrich Loeffler institute said.
No other details were immediately available.
- AP