Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?
House cats are getting — and dying of — bird flu. That’s been sparking worries about what risk an ongoing 2024 outbreak of this H5N1 virus poses for furry pets and their owners. Kristen Coleman and Ian Bemis are airborne-viral-disease researchers at the University of Maryland in College Park. They recently surveyed hundreds of scientific…