A Michael Broad Blog
The Daily Mail online, a paper that I read sometimes and which is normally of good quality, has misrepresented a rabies scare in Nebraska, USA. The way the story has been pitched, it encourages people to believe that a five-week-old tuxedo kitten has started a rabies infection in Nebraska which might spread to other …
I would think that some people are a little concerned about the news from China of hospitals being overwhelmed with sick children after a surge in respiratory illnesses. It sounds a bit like Covid-19 all over again. And as you know, Covid-19 is a zoonosis which means it’s a disease which humans caught from …
Sometimes people are unfair on domestic, stray and feral cats. The last group is particularly vulnerable to criticism particularly with respect to ‘spreading disease’. It is the classic rallying cry of the anti-cat brigade when campaigning to kill feral cats. Here is an infographic listing 6 diseases that cats are sometimes unfairly blamed for …
A pruritic cat is an itchy cat. The medical term for itching is ‘pruritus’. I am not a veterinarian but I think this is one of the more disconcerting diseases that a cat can suffer from. I feel for pruritic cats. Constantly itching must be horrible and emotionally draining. The video from the Cuyahoga …
