A supposed headline about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) killing cats in response to the bird flu outbreak is fabricated. There is no evidence that the CDC has plans to cull cats after one tested positive for bird flu.

The study provides growing evidence of the threat it poses even when cats have no direct exposure to sick dairy cows or poultry.

But the study, whose publication was delayed by a pause in public communications by the agency, leaves key questions unanswered.