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The #Netherlands confirms its first #death from avian #influenza #H5N1 in a #cat (Xinhua, Dec. 3 '25)

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By G.M.

 


The Hague, December 2 (Xinhua) 

Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Safety and Nature, Femke Wilsma, reported on December 1 that the country had confirmed its first death from the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.

In a letter to the House of Representatives that day, Wilsma stated that the Institute of Biological Veterinary Medicine at Wageningen University had recently reported that a kitten at a goat farm tested positive for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus. 

The kitten was found dead by its owner. 

The remaining seven kittens from the same litter also died after being given to other new owners, suggesting that they may have also been infected with the avian influenza virus, but the specific route of infection is still uncertain.

The letter stated that, according to the cat owner, the mother cat had brought back a dead wild bird, which was suspected to have carried the avian influenza virus, and the kittens were infected after eating the carcass. 

The health expert team also tested the goats and adult cats on the farm, but no avian influenza virus was found.

The letter stated that France and other countries had previously reported cases of cats dying from avian influenza. 

The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment has raised the risk level for those working with infected animals from "low and moderate" to "moderate," while the risk of the general public in the Netherlands contracting avian influenza remains "very low."

The avian influenza situation in the Netherlands is currently quite serious. In October, the Dutch government announced nationwide measures to confine and isolate poultry, and imposed a transportation ban within a 10-kilometer radius of the outbreak site, prohibiting the transport of poultry, hatching eggs, edible eggs, poultry manure, used bedding, and other animals and animal products from farms within that area.

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