A Michael Broad Blog
A twenty-three-year-old man living in Belgium suffered from erectile dysfunction because he had been scratched by a cat at his home – that’s the diagnosis. We don’t know whether the cat belonged to him or somebody else. Importantly, we don’t know where the cat scratched him! It invokes an interesting image in one’s mind …
CDC have produced a whopping and very detailed report on cat scratch disease (aka cat scratch fever) in the USA. The findings might interest some people. They start off with the obvious: cat scratch disease (CSD) is mostly preventable. They must mean that you avoid it by avoiding being scratched – hardly worth stating. …
Introduction from Michael (Admin): I feel that I have to introduce this article by Jo because it is a very complicated area and scientists write in a language which is not easily interpreted by non-scientists. In addition, studies are often a collation of information harvested from other studies and therefore they can compound inaccuracies …
This article was inspired by Kylee who commented on another article that cat scratches are ‘scratches of love’. I’ve always called them ‘badges of honour’ but I think her words describe them much better. Why are some people afraid of being scratched? If they are so cowardly why do they have a cat as …
by Michael On the internet there is quite a lot of ignorant re-cycling of anti-cat propaganda based on distorted scientific ideas. There are two diseases that constantly reappear and which are used against the cat: toxoplasmosis and cat scratch fever. The latter is often used as an argument to declaw cats or simply to …
It is these things that extremely rarely cause cat scratch fever photograph © fofurasfelinas Cause This condition is also known as cat scratch syndrome or cat scratch disease (CSD). In technical terms it is called “benign lymphoreticulosis”. It can also be called “Bartonellosis” after the bacteria causing the condition (see below). This is not …
