Housecat
Your kitty’s irritated nip at your hand may leave only a small puncture wound. But that wound can be tricky to properly disinfect and that means the risk of infection is high—as many as 80 percent of cat bites get infected. You could come down with Bartonella henselae, a.k.a cat scratch fever or disease, which, in rare cases, can cause bone infection; or Pasteurella multocida, which can lead to pneumonia.
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