Two Oregon cats dead after eating raw pet food infected with bird flu

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Two more Oregon cats died this month after eating raw cat food that was contaminated with the deadly bird flu virus, prompting Washington state officials to issue a recall.

The cats lived in separate households in Multnomah County but both ate the same food produced by Wild Coast Raw in Olympia, Washington, according to the Oregon Department of Agriculture. They became so ill that they had to be euthanized within days of each other, state records show.

As of Friday, there had not been any reports of cats in Washington affected by the infected pet food, a spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Agriculture said.

The owners reported the illnesses and Oregon Department of Agriculture officials collected samples of the food from opened and unopened containers for testing. Tests were conducted by labs in Oregon, Washington state and by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which confirmed that the food was tainted with the same strain that killed the cats.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/two-more-oregon-cats-die-from-bird-flu-virus-in-raw-food/