Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cat scratch fever, also medically known as cat scratch disease (CSD), occurs when the organism Bartonella henselae gets into a ...

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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 ...

Q: My child was recently diagnosed with "cat scratch fever." He was sick for a couple of days but is getting better now that he's on antibiotics. What is cat scratch fever? How did he get it? And what ...

When people talk about cat scratch fever, they’re not referring to the 1978 eponymous song by Ted Nugent. They are actually talking about a bacteria (bartonella henselae) carried by cats, and passed ...