YES! Based on the preliminary studies, yes, dogs can get the flu from humans. However, it is highly uncommon.

– As flu season approaches, people who get sick may not realize they can pass the flu not only to other humans, but possibly to other animals, including pets such as cats, dogs and ferrets.

Cats can be infected with influenza viruses, including avian influenza viruses, and can spread influenza viruses to each other (cat-to-cat).

As cat flu is caused by viruses, there is no direct cure, so treatment aims to relieve clinical signs until the immune system can clear the infection. Supportive treatment can include pain medication, anti-viral medication, eye drops and antibiotics for any secondary bacterial infection.

How is cat flu treated?

1. Keep their fluids up: encourage them to drink, as water can help to loosen catarrhal secretions.
2. Try to keep their eyes and nose clear: gently wipe away any discharge that accumulates with cotton-wool pads dipped in salt water.
3. If their appetite is lacking, try and encourage them to eat.

Signs of cat flu can include cat sneezing, a runny nose, sore eyes, dribbling, subdued behaviour, loss of appetite, eye and mouth ulcers and a cough.

What can I do if my cat is being sick?

1. Remove food for two hours, but continue to provide water.
2. After this time, try offering a teaspoon of their usual food or bland low-fat cooked food such as chicken or white fish.
3. If they keep this down, offer small amounts every few hours for the.
4. Then go back to your usual routine.

Calicivirus can cause mouth ulcers as well as lameness in young kittens. Many cats will recover and are no longer contagious after one or two years.

There is no evidence that either strain of canine influenza (H3N8, H3N2) can infect humans.

An infected cat tends to shed the virus for a relatively short period of time (1-2 days), but the virus can survive for up to a year in the environment, so cats may become infected without ever coming into direct contact with an infected cat.

For most healthy people, the flu is an uncomfortable but short-term illness that resolves itself as the immune system fights it off. Symptoms usually appear from one to four days after exposure to the virus, and they last five to seven days.

Sleep Tips for a Cold or the Flu

1. Prop yourself up. Sinus pressure gets better when your head is higher than your body, so let gravity work for you.
2. Use a vaporizer or humidifier.
3. Drink or eat something hot.
4. Try cold and flu medicines.
5. Don’t drink alcohol.
6. Sleep alone.
7. Can’t sleep?

Influenza type A and type B are similar, but type A is overall more prevalent, sometimes more severe, and can cause flu epidemics and pandemics.

Unlike type A flu viruses, type B flu is found only in humans. Type B flu may cause a less severe reaction than type A flu virus, but occasionally, type B flu can still be extremely harmful. Influenza type B viruses are not classified by subtype and do not cause pandemics.

The committee recommended that the quadrivalent formulation of cell- or recombinant based influenza vaccines for the U.S. 2020-2021 influenza season contain the following: an A/Hawaii/70/2019 (H1N1) pdm09-like virus; an A/HongKong/45/2019 (H3N2)-like virus; a B/Washington/02/2019- like virus (B/Victoria lineage);

Type B influenza can be just as severe as type A influenza but is less common throughout the flu season compared to type A. Humans are the natural host for type B infection. Type B viruses mutate much slower than type A infections and are categorized by strains, but not subtypes.

You can help prevent pneumonia by doing the following:

1. Get the flu vaccine each year. People can develop bacterial pneumonia after a case of the flu.
2. Get the pneumococcal vaccine.
3. Practice good hygiene.
4. Don’t smoke.
5. Practice a healthy lifestyle.
6. Avoid sick people.

When a virus causes your pneumonia, you’re more likely to notice symptoms over several days. Early signs will look like the flu — such as fever, dry cough, headache, and weakness — but get worse in a day or two.