Dozens of cats in Poland had bird flu but the risk to people is low

The World Health Organization said more than two dozen cats have been infected with bird flu across Poland, but no people appeared to have been sickened.
The U.N. health agency said it was the first time so many cats had been reported to have bird flu over such a wide geographical area in a single country, amid an unprecedented global outbreak of the latest version of the H5N1 version of the disease.
WHO said that late last month, Polish authorities informed agency officials of the unusual deaths of more than 45 cats in 13 geographical regions of the country.
Testing last week found that 29 had H5N1.
As of June, the most recent variant of H5N1 has been reported in birds and other animal species in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Since 2020, WHO said a dozen human cases have been reported.