In a rare incident in Mumbai, a young girl ended up in the ICU after a seemingly harmless cat scratch led to a dangerous ...

Uh-oh.NPR reports more people are becoming seriously ill with something called cat-scratch disease, a sickness that you can get if your cat's claws pass on certain bacteria when they scratch you ...

Cat scratch fever, also medically known as cat scratch disease (CSD), occurs when the organism Bartonella henselae gets into a person's bloodstream and travels toward the lymph nodes in the neck ...

Though it's rare for the plague to spread from a cat to a human — there are only seven cases of human plague, total, on average in the U.S. — a scratch wouldn't necessarily have to be involved.

MENTAL HEALTH ‘Cat scratch’ fever may cause human madness, study says Some of the lyrics from Ted Nugent’s 1977 song 'Cat Scratch Fever' are not medically inaccurate, a new study suggests ...

These escapes could help your cat calm down, and reduce its desire to scratch. Demirbas said the research team saw a decrease in scratching when her team "designed an environment for our cats." ...

TOLEDO, OH (KTRK) -- A woman says her pet cat made her go blind in one eye. "I woke up one day and I couldn't see out of my left eye," Janese Walters told WTOL-TV. "I looked in the mirror and I ...

Fact: Cats will scratch everything in your home except the expensive purpose-made scratching post you bought them. Shredding a sofa is always better than following the rules for these devil ...