Bird flu has been on the rise in Washington state and one sanctuary was hit hard: 20 big cats – more than half of the facility’s population – died over the course of weeks.

Authorities are investigating how the big cats contracted bird flu, he added. Highly pathogenic strains of H5N1 influenza have been spreading in animals and to a lesser extent in people since 2022.

Bird flu has been on the rise in Washington state and one sanctuary was hit hard: 20 big cats – more than half of the facility’s population – died over the course of weeks.

20 big cats die from bird flu in Washington sanctuary “The drug treatment was Tamiflu, (which) seemed to be the miracle drug that we did use if we could get it in them.

A wildlife sanctuary in Washington announced it is going into quarantine until further notice after 20 big cats died due to bird flu infections.. The Wild Felid Advocacy Center in Shelton ...

Twenty big cats, including a half-Bengal tiger and four cougars, died between late November and mid-December at a sanctuary in Washington State after becoming infected with bird flu, according to ...

(CNN) — Bird flu has been on the rise in Washington state and one sanctuary was hit hard: 20 big cats – more than half of the facility’s population – died over the course of weeks.