If true, is it time to get rid of all cats?

If true, is it time to get rid of all cats? Real Clear Science has an article that may cause some to react (in my humble opinion) to get rid of their cats.

Now, a small but growing number of house cats have gotten sick from H5N1, the bird flu strain driving the current U.S. outbreak, after eating raw food or drinking unpasteurized milk. Some of those cats died.

“Companion animals, and especially cats, are 100% a public health risk in terms of the risk of zoonotic transmission to people,” said virologist Angela Rasmussen, who studies disease progression in emerging viruses at the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization.

Get rid of them now.

Nuff said.