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The bacteria injected by a cat bite can include a strain common in animals and particularly hard to fight with antibiotics, he says. In the study, researchers identified 193 Mayo Clinic patients with cat bites to the hand from January 1, 2009, through 2011. Of those, 57 were hospitalized; on average, they were in the hospital three days.
ANSWER: A bite or scratch from a cat carries particular risks, and infection is common. Cat scratch disease (or cat scratch fever) is a specific type of bacterial infection that occurs when a cat bites or scratches hard enough to break the skin’s surface or licks an open wound.
"The concern when it comes to pregnancy and cat litter is a type of parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis. This is the type of infection that cats can get. They might not have any symptoms of it themselves, but they shed the parasite in their stool. And, so, it ends up in the cat litter in quite a high concentration," says Dr. Rajapakse.
Bats play an important role in many ecosystems around the world. They are a major predator of night-flying insects, including pests that cost farmers billions of dollars annually. However, bats pose the biggest rabies threat in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most bats are not rabid. However, because rabies […]
Despite what you may have been told when you were younger, smothering or burning ticks is not a good idea. The correct removal method is even easier. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (0:59) is in the downloads. Read the script. There’s the old way and the right way to remove a tick. "Using matches or […]
The deadly virus is transmitted from the saliva of infected animals to humans, usually through a bite. However, bats don't always bite. "Sometimes the saliva will drool onto you, and you could have a minor open cut," says Dr. Poland. "Or sometimes a bat will lick on the skin and, again, transmit the virus that way."
"One is called rabies immune globulin," says Dr. Jacobson. "This is a passive immunization of collected antibodies against rabies that the nurse will actually inject directly into the wound if it's an animal bite that is visible. This works immediately to give you protection while you're waiting for your body to respond to the vaccine."
Lyme disease, which is the most common tick-borne illness in the U.S., is transmitted by the bite of an infected black-legged tick, commonly known as a deer tick. But it’s important to be aware that the black-legged tick also can transmit other organisms, including those that cause anaplasmosis and babesiosis.
In most cases, bee stings are just annoying, and home treatment is all that's necessary to ease the pain of bee stings. But if you're allergic to bee stings or you get stung numerous times, you may have a more-serious reaction that requires emergency treatment. Bee stings can produce different reactions, ranging from temporary pain […]
Human ehrlichiosis — This infection produces flu-like signs and symptoms that typically appear within a week or two of a bite from an infected tick. Some people develop only mild symptoms, but human ehrlichiosis can be a severe or life threatening illness due to potential serious complications, such as septic shock, respiratory failure and ...