A Michael Broad Blog
If you own a domestic cat you might get ringworm from him/her. It is highly contagious and zoonotic (cat to human). Shelter cats can get ringworm very easily. If you adopt a shelter cat with the disease it is likely that you will acquire it. Unless it is pronounced it is hard to see …
Aasha is a female Bengal tiger. She was a travelling circus tiger. When she was spotted with ringworm at the age of nine months she had the weight of a three-month-old cub at 30 pounds and most of her coat including all her head was badly affected by ringworm. The ringworm had taken all …
People ask this question on the internet. Ringworm is not that uncommon in domestic cats and it is very easily transmitted between cats and from cats to people. I’ll answer the question with reference to domestic cats. You probably know that ringworm is not a worm but a plantlike fungal growth. Typically the ring …
We know how contagious ringworm is but how, exactly, is it transmitted? We need to know this in order to manage it. To be honest, it’s quite hard to find out this information in the sort of detail and precision that I seek. Transmission The disease is transmitted by contact with spores. These are …
We know that ringworm is a zoonotic disease. When we discuss zoonotic diseases we almost invariably refer to the transmission of a disease from animals to us. In other words, we are referring to the transmission of a disease between different species and in the case of ringworm we are talking about transmission from …
In general, cats in conventional animal shelters are living through a stressful and hazardous time. It is probably the most hazardous and stressful time of their lives (depending on the individual shelter and cat). We don’t have to go over the same ground to conclude that, in the USA, shelter cats in a typical …
From Deb Bevan I have a kitten that I want to adopt. He has been treated for ringworm and I am told he is fine now. Is there a chance for the ringworm to return as I have other animals in the house? Please answer as asap. The sooner this little guy gets forever …
By Michael Ringworm photo © topherous Cat ringworm is exactly the same as human ringworm as it is zoonotic, which means it is a disease or infectious agent that can be transmitted between animals and humans. The term zoonotic is strange as it presupposes that we are not animals when we clearly are albeit …
