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. …
We should be aware that dogs could also cause cat scratch fever in humans. It sounds rather strange but it is true and I hope that this information takes some of the automatic blame away from the cat. You would have thought that with a name like “cat scratch fever” that the disease was …
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