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Manatee County Animal Welfare has temporarily suspended cat intake at Bishop Animal Shelter due to a panleukopenia outbreak, a highly contagious and deadly feline virus. The shelter is implementing vaccination, sanitation, and containment measures, and is seeking foster families to care for affected kittens. The public is urged to vaccinate their cats, keep them indoors, and spread awareness to help control the outbreak.
South Korean authorities have placed a cat shelter in Seoul under quarantine after detecting the H5N1 strain of bird flu in two cats. This is the first time since 2016 that avian influenza has been detected in a cat in the country. The World Health Organization has stated that the risk to humans from H5N1 remains low, but reports of infections in mammals need to be closely monitored. Nobody who had contact with the cats at the shelter is showing symptoms, but those at higher risk will be monitored for 10 days.