December 27, 2010
Abbott Diabetes Care announced on December 23, 2010 that it has initiated a recall of 359 lots (approximately 359 million strips) of Precision Xtra®, Precision Xceed Pro®, MediSense® Optium™, Optium™, OptiumEZ and ReliOn® Ultima Blood Glucose Test Strips in the United States and Puerto Rico.
The test strips are used with Abbott’s Precision Xtra, [...]
May 2010: Cytauxzoonosis, a deadly blood disease sometimes called Bobcat Fever, has infected several cats in the USA recently. Cytauxzoonosis is a blood parasite, whose natural host is the bobcat. The disease is spread by ticks feeding on the bobcats, then those ticks go on to feed on domestic cats, spreading the parasite. The disease [...]
Cat in Oregon, US, died from H1N1 virus (swine flu)
Nov. 2009: A cat in Oregon, US, caught the H1N1 virus (swine flu) from a human. The cat died four days after having been brought to the veterinarian. The cat, Buddy Lou, had heavily labored breathing due to fluid build up in the [...]
Cats have caught H1N1 Virus (Swine flu) from Humans
Nov. 2009: The first confirmed case of H1N1 virus in a cat was made on Nov. 2, 2009 in a 13-year-old cat in Iowa, USA. The cat caught the disease from humans in the household. The cat’s owners were ill with flu-like symptoms, and the cat developed [...]
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