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Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Feral Cat Study - 1994

 

Assessment of the Histological Lesions and Chemical

analysis of Feral Cats to the Smoke from the

Kuwait Oil Fires

26 cats from Kuwait were collected October 21st -27th 1991,

after the oil wells were set on fire. 12 cats from Kuwait city,

14 from the city of Ahmadi. The cats were euthanized, and

biopsied for their organs.

 

This was only 8 months after the fires started, and yet 14

of the 26 carts exhibited bronchial *hyperplasia. While 17

had tracheal *metaplasia. ( beginning cancer )

 

All had Anthracosis, respiratory disorder, the early, usually

nonsymptomatic stage of coal-workers' pneumoconiosis.

See black lung.

 

18 had Eosinophilic Bronchiolitis, form of lung disease.

 

They found toxic heavy metals like chromium, cadmium,

 

They found arsenic in the cats.

 

The point is most of these cats would have lived short tragic

lives if the disease had been allowed to go to term. These

were signs respiratory distress, and environmental poisoning.

But, by killing the cast early on there was no long term results

to this short sided study. 65% presented onset cancer, 69%

EB lung disease, and 100% coal miner black lung disease.

 

So for your reading pleasure,

the AFIP Feral Cat Study.

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hyperplasia
* an abnormal or unusual increase in the elements composing

a part (as cells composing a tissue)

metaplasia

*abnormal replacement of cells of one type by cells of another