Ysengrin Blackpaw's Journal

... an Indonesian scientist has found that in areas where there have been outbreaks of H5N1 in poultry and humans, 1 in 5 cats have been infected with the virus, and survived. This suggests that as outbreaks continue to flare across Asia and Africa, H5N1 will have vastly more opportunities to adapt to mammals than had been supposed ...

The new findings follow reports that unusually large numbers of dead cats have been found near many outbreaks of H5N1. "Javanese farmers even have a word for the cat disease," says Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. ... Tigers and leopards in Thai zoos also died ... Osterhaus emphasises[sic] that the cat infections still pose a potential threat. "We know the 1918 pandemic was a bird flu virus that adapted to mammals in some intermediate mammalian host, possibly pigs," he says.

The article is in New Scientist. For those who aren't familiar with the 1918 pandemic, check out the Wikipedia article for a start.

I know that back at Verdun, we seemed to pass colds back and forth between us and the lions (the wolves didn't seem to catch our colds or pass theirs to us).