Thread: Stomach flu in cats?

Hello HB

Oh poor you, and your poor guys! At least they have recovered quickly.
I thought that you can't transfer a human sickness to a cat, and vice versa.
So maybe it's just an unhappy coincidence.

Hope everything is back to normal now!

Louisa (HB!)

I think there are certain water borne 'bugs' that cats and humans can share, not all cats are suseptable but a few years ago we lived in a fairly large village, the water didn't always taste the same or 'right'. My husband was always suffering from... well an upset stomach is the polite description! But so did our kitten, she must have had the squirts for months, lots of tablets and trips to the vets, she was even booked in for a biopsy! Then the water board spent weeks messing around with 'our' water, we were days without the stuff, guess what the cat misteriously got better... our guess was that it was giardia, it is very difficult to prove one way or another but water born infections don't care who or what they infect!

The only time I have known of humans & cats going down one after the other was a good old case of campylobacter,all had eaten chicken so it was not actually infection being passed from one to another.....
Luckily there are not many things that do pass from animals to humans & vice versa !
Fingers crossed that next weekend will be better for you & not memorable because of all the s**t clearing x

Last year swine flu was well documented going from humanimals to cats, dogs, ferrets, birds, etc and from animals to humans.

Hope you're all feeling better quickly! and you get caught up on nice rest.