Oregon suits the pet food company for allegedly killing his cats with bird flu

Oregon’s man filed a lawsuit against Wild Coast Pet this week after the death of his bird flu. The lawsuit claims that the company misled the consumers when it sold the food of raw chicken as healthy, and failed to recognize potential risks, such as possible death from the consumption of food infected with H5N1.

The lawsuit, which Tim Hanson, seeks to obtain just less than 8,000 dollars of damage that covers compensation for veterinary bills and legal fees, according to. KTVB 7 In Oregon. Hanson adopted his cat Kira in 2021 and told the news perpetrator that he usually feeds his raw food, such as the chicken who killed his cat because I “believe in the health benefits of it.” It is not quite clear the health benefits that Hanson believes can come from raw chicken.

Hanson KTVB 7 told that he bought Wild Coast Pet Foods Cat Food in January, but one day in early February Keira stopped eating. Hanson told the news perpetrator that he brought it to the veterinarian on February 5 and a few days later, tests confirmed that Keira had bird flu. Keira was so sick that she should have been disposed of on February 9.

Wild Coast, based in Washington, issued a summons on March 1 for 16 ounces and 24 ounces of free free chicken, homogeneous cats. Food was sold in Washington and Oregon.

Warning against the summons, which was published on the Food and Drug Administration website (FDA):

People who feed the pets should monitor the symptoms of bird flu in their pets, including fever, lethargy, low appetite, flexible or inflamed eyes, emptying of eyes and nose, difficulty breathing, and neurological signs such as tremors, harsh body movements, lack of coordination, or blindness. People with pets should display these signs after feeding this product, contact their veterinary doctors.

The spread of bird influenza was destroyed by many cat owners, as it appears to be the most vulnerable among pets outside the birds to H5N1. Several cats have been documented from New York to Oregon to die from the disease, and there is likely to be a lot of deaths that are not discovered.

No human in the United States has contracted bird flu from eating, at least as much as health authorities can tell them. But the cats seem to get them from the consumption of raw food. American health agencies have tested both milk and beef, and it appears that both of them are safe for human consumption, even with bird flu, as long as the milk is evaded and the beef is cooked at least.

There is also no evidence of the spread of bird flu from a person to a person in the United States, but there is concern that the mutation can allow this to happen. There were 70 cases of H5N1 documented in Americans with one death. Forty -one of these cases was linked to the dairy livestock, 24 were tracked to poultry farms, and two of the backyard herds and wild birds, and three cases are still unknown.

Wild Coast did not answer the questions on Friday. Gizmodo will update this post if we hear.