CLEVELAND — Cat Scratch Fever: if you were a Ted Nugent fan in the 70s, you probably remember the song. Amanda Naylor does, and that's all she thought it was, just a song. Until she learned it was a ...

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 ...

Doctors in Portugal describe how the cat likely transmitted a germ that usually only causes swollen lymph nodes and fever. Reading time 2 minutes A teen girl’s kitten turned out to cause much more ...

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 ...

You can get rabies from a cat scratch, but this is extremely rare. Rabies, a fatal nervous system disease, is transmitted via the saliva of infected mammals, so it's usually passed on to humans when a ...