Killer kitties

This current news story is shocking to me since I was just diagnosed on Tuesday with the Swine flu.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A 13-year-old Iowa cat has been infected with swine flu, veterinary and federal officials said Wednesday in what is believed to be the first case of the H1N1 virus in a feline in the United States.

The domestic shorthaired cat was treated last week at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ames and has recovered, officials said. The virus also has been confirmed in two ferrets - one in Oregon and the other in Nebraska - but they died.

"We've known certainly it's possible this could happen," said

Centers for Disease Control spokesman Tom Skinner. "This may be the first instance where we have documentation that transmission occurred involving cats or dogs."

The veterinarian who treated the cat, Dr. Brett Sponseller, said two of the three people in the cat's Iowa home had flu-like symptoms before the cat became ill. The case was confirmed at both Iowa State and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Other influenza strains have been known to cross species, but Sponseller cautioned against drawing too many conclusions from the cat including whether other pets could also get the swine flu.

......wtf kind of ish is this? Not only do we have to watch out for people but pets as well...We don't know where I contracted it from..the only thing we can think of is church. I have a newborn baby and we don't really take her around people...

Now that I think of it I could have contracted it from my husbands gallery opening I was there for only 45mins though...well I be damned wait until he wakes up....