Cats and humans share intimate spaces, and with that comes the risk of illnesses transmitting from one to another. Luckily, many of them are rare.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A girl had no history of cat allergy, atopic dermatitis or food allergy when she was bit on the back of her hand ...

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A man bitten by a stray cat in the U.K. developed an infection from a bacterial species that wasn’t present in any DNA database, researchers reported in a case study published in the August edition of ...

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