What affects us affects cats
Rabies is rare in the United States but there is a real threat and for humans the biggest threat comes from dogs. Dogs are the go-between, between people and the carrier which is usually a raccoon, skunk, fox or coyote. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) …
Is this fantasy or reality? Fox News tells us that this boy’s diagnosed schizophrenia was cured with antibiotics because his mental illness was caused by a cat. Cat scratch disease is caused by bacteria and therefore if you give the sufferer antibiotics they kill the bacteria and resolve the disease. That’s the story but …
An inconclusive study does not find Toxoplasma gondii infection causes schizophrenia as is reported on many websites this morning. The online newspapers and even online science journals are misrepresenting the conclusions of another study which seeks to find a link between the parasitic protozoan toxoplasma gondii and psychiatric disorders in people. For instance, IFL …
Gemma Birch believes that she contracted the very rare Guillain-Barré syndrome because she stroked a stray cat in Albufeira, Portugal in 2014. She said that she was left paralysed from the hips down after she contracted the bacterial infection from a stray cat. She liked the cat during her holiday at a resort and …
A Turkish online newspaper, Hurriyet Daily News, reports that toxoplasmosis has caused partial blindness in two Turkish women. Both women come from the Western province of Izmir. One woman loves cats and the other is allergic to them. “A cat-borne parasite has caused two Turkish women to lose their eye sights” One woman is …
NOTE: this is not an advertisement! I don’t get paid for this…I am just trying to help. IMPORTANT: EYES MUST BE PROTECTED FROM THE UV LIGHT and I am not a vet. I am just passing on information from personal experiences. Please read the postscript at the base of the article. Thanks. People ask …
Prophylaxis: treatment given or action taken to prevent disease – in this case a course of rabies jabs after exposure to the disease. You can treat a bite from a rabid animal with a course of vaccinations. In the USA, the cost of a course of rabies immune globulin and four doses of vaccine …
Doctors at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St Louis say that his cat caused these nasty symptoms on the side of this unnamed man’s face. Blood tests revealed that he was suffering from glandular tularemia caused by the Francisella tularensis bacterium. Apparently the man’s veterinarian said that his cat was suffering from feline leukaemia when in …
