In general, treatment to aid in the cat bite or scratch healing process prior to such an infection includes the following: Wash the wound thoroughly with soap and water.

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.

To find out more about Capnocytophaga canimorsus infections, as well as other diseases that dogs and cats can pass on to their owners, MinnPost spoke with Jennifer Granick, an assistant professor ...

Cat bites to the hand are so dangerous, one in three patients with such wounds had to be hospitalized, a study covering three years showed. Of those hospitalized, two-thirds needed surgery.

After dozing off, she woke up Friday morning to the sound of her cat scratching the litter box at 5 a.m., a sign that it was ...

It’s enough to make you think twice about roughhousing with a cat. When a cat bites a person’s hand and the skin turns red, the wound needs prompt attention to prevent a deep-set infection ...

A recent study released by the CDC has found that cat-scratch disease, sometimes called cat-scratch fever, is far more common than originally thought.

A 6-year-old in East Yorkshire, England, was playing with her beloved pet cat “Tigger” when tragedy struck and he accidentally bit her, leaving her with a serious soft tissue infection that ...

A cluster of rare fungal infections was found in two pet cats and a vet who treated them, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday in a report in the journal Emerging ...