Cat scratch fever, also referred to as cat scratch disease (CSD), is a zoonotic infection that occurs when someone comes into contact with Bartonella henselae bacteria. Zoonotic diseases are types of ...

Cat scratches can cause more than rabies; watch for infections, tetanus, and cat scratch fever.

The causes of fever in cats can be varied. While elevated temperature can be triggered by stress, fever is often a sign of a serious illness or infection. Fever is a common but often overlooked sign ...

“You know you got it when you’re going insane.” Some of the lyrics from Ted Nugent’s 1977 song “Cat Scratch Fever” are not medically inaccurate, a new study suggests. In research published this month ...

A man who partly lost his vision while driving turned out to have cat scratch disease. Doctors diagnosed him after learning he had recently adopted a cat, according to a case report. Cat scratch ...

The CDC has released a new study on cat-scratch disease, often referred to as cat-scratch fever, aimed at better understanding the epidemiology of the disease to offer prevention tactics for those at ...

Feline distemper, also known as feline panleukopenia virus (FPV) or feline parvo, is a devastating and sometimes fatal disease that occurs in cats. It has also been called cat fever, cat plague, ...