Pet food contaminated with bird flu – which killed a house cat in Oregon – was distributed and sold in British Columbia, according to officials south of the border.
Northwest Naturals brand 2lb Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food has been recalled by the company and anyone who purchased it is advised to get rid of it immediately.
The Oregon Department of Agriculture issued a notice about the recall, saying testing confirmed that the same H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza that was found in the food was determined to have infected the cat.
“This cat was strictly an indoor cat; it was not exposed to the virus in its environment, and results from the genome sequencing confirmed that the virus recovered from the raw pet food and infected cat were exact matches to each other,” Dr. Ryan Scholz, the state veterinarian with the department said.
No human …