For millions of people, cats are loving companions that bring comfort and joy. But behind those soft paws and playful claws, ...

Cat lovers know to expect the occasional scratch from their furry friends. It's an occupational hazard when you invite a skilled predator (albeit a cute one) into your home. But sometimes, a cat's ...

A seemingly harmless cat scratch caused a hidden bacterial infection, leaving a woman with prolonged fever and painful ...

Doctors in Portugal describe how the cat likely transmitted a germ that usually only causes swollen lymph nodes and fever. Reading time 2 minutes A teen girl’s kitten turned out to cause much more ...

Cats are cute, and studies have shown that having one as a pet can reduce anxiety and even slow mental decline. Sometimes, however, their claws can get a little too close for comfort, leaving humans ...

At a conference earlier this month, Shawn Lockhart, PhD, director of the Fungal Reference Laboratory at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), presented the case of a Sporothrix ...

Bartonellosis is the name for an infectious disease produced by bacteria called Bartonella. Species from this genus cause diseases like Carrión’s disease, trench fever, cat-scratch disease, bacillary ...

Adults with psychosis are three times more likely to have Bartonella DNA in their blood than those without. The findings suggest that vector-borne pathogens like Bartonella could play a role in ...

The CDC has released a new study on cat-scratch disease, often referred to as cat-scratch fever, aimed at better understanding the epidemiology of the disease to offer prevention tactics for those at ...

A woman from Ohio was BLINDED after a lick from her adorable pet cat. Janese Walters woke up one day and thought she might have pink eye when she realised the vision in her left eye was gone. "I went ...