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Chopard Ambassador Jacky Ickx Visits Riyadh

Chopard Ambassador Jacky Ickx Visits Riyadh
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Chopard Ambassador Jacky Ickx Visits Riyadh

Chopard Ambassador Jacky Ickx Visits Riyadh

Chopard along with partner Attar United welcomed Chopard Ambassador Jacky Ickx at the newly opened Chopard boutique in the Kingdom Center in Riyadh.

Motorsport enthusiasts had the opportunity to meet and greet one of the greatest drivers in motor-racing history, Chopard Ambassador Jacky Ickx.

Jacky Ickx took part in more than 100 Grand prix and earned his first victory at the 1968 French Grand Prix, at the age of 23. He is above all famous for his performances in endurance races, especially in the Le Mans 24-Hour event, a competition that he won six times, which is a record unequalled to date.

In addition to his many wins on the circuit, Jacky Ickx also finished first in the Paris-Dakar car rally in 1983. In 2022, he returned back to Saudi Arabia for the 3rd consecutive edition of the Dakar Rally that took place across the Saudi Arabian desert from January 1 to 14.

Jacky Ickx’s passion for automobiles naturally led him to take an interest in the 1000 Miglia, a race in which he often took part in the company of his friend Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, Chopard Co-President.

Thrilled by the experience, Jacky Ickx is one of the most loyal competitors in the 1000 Miglia, of which Chopard has been serving as world sponsor and official timekeeper since 1988.

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Oregon House Cat Died after Eating Pet Food that Tested Positive for Bird Flu

Test tubes are seen labelled "Bird Flu" in this illustration taken on Jun 10, 2024. (File photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration)
Test tubes are seen labelled "Bird Flu" in this illustration taken on Jun 10, 2024. (File photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration)
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Oregon House Cat Died after Eating Pet Food that Tested Positive for Bird Flu

Test tubes are seen labelled "Bird Flu" in this illustration taken on Jun 10, 2024. (File photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration)
Test tubes are seen labelled "Bird Flu" in this illustration taken on Jun 10, 2024. (File photo: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration)

An Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, Oregon authorities said, prompting a recall of raw frozen pet food that was sold nationwide.

Northwest Naturals, a pet food company based in Portland, Oregon, said Tuesday it had voluntarily recalled one batch of its two-pound Feline Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food after it tested positive for the virus. The product was sold through distributors in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, as well as Canada's British Columbia.

“We are confident that this cat contracted H5N1 by eating the Northwest Naturals raw and frozen pet food,” Oregon Department of Agriculture State Veterinarian Dr. Ryan Scholz said in a Tuesday news release. “This cat was strictly an indoor cat; it was not exposed to the virus in its environment, and results from the genome sequencing confirmed that the virus recovered from the raw pet food and infected cat were exact matches to each other.”

The recalled product is packaged in two-pound plastic bags with “best if used by” dates of May 21, 2026, and June 23, 2026. The company and Oregon authorities said that consumers who bought the recalled product should throw it away immediately and contact the place of purchase for a refund, The AP reported.

No human cases of bird flu have been linked to the incident, but those who were in contact with the cat are being monitored for flu symptoms, Oregon authorities said.

More than 60 people in eight states have been infected, with mostly mild illnesses, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. One person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the nation’s first known severe illness caused by the virus, health officials said last week.

So far, the CDC has confirmed one human case of bird flu in Oregon. The person was linked to a previously reported outbreak at a commercial poultry operation and fully recovered after experiencing mild illness, according to a November news release from the Oregon Health Authority.

In late October, the US Department of Agriculture announced that a pig at a backyard farm in Oregon was found to have bird flu, marking the first detection of the virus in US swine.