The Central Texas area has not had a human case yet of the H5N1 virus. Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 66 cases of bird flu in people, including one death.

Several cats, wild and domestic, in the U.S. have contracted H5N1 avian influenza and died from eating raw food contaminated with bird flu. Raw foods include unpasteurized milk, uncooked meat or ...

since emerging in 2020 in Europe, the current bird flu strain, H5N1, has been declared the largest avian flu epidemic ever on that continent and has spread to Africa, the Middle East and Asia.