A man contracts a rare and deadly disease of his cat

MISSOURI (KRON) – According to a report published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, a man from Missouri has contracted a rare, very serious illness caused by a cat.

The case describes how a sick cat infected its owner with a rare disease called Francisella tularensis, a poisonous bacterium.

The doctors said the 68-year-old man went to his doctor after suffering a fever for about a week.

This was followed by two months of swelling of the face and neck.

The man also told the doctor that his cat was dead from what a vet had diagnosed as feline leukemia just two days before getting sick too.

But now, doctors suspect that the cat was also infected with Francisella tularensis, which they said was passed on to the man who was trying to help his cat.

How did it happen? The doctors said that it could have happened in close contact, citing bites or scratches for the disease to be passed from cat to human.

After the man was tested positive for glandular tularemia, he received antibiotics for four weeks.

The doctors said that the human lesions had improved within five days and had disappeared completely in three weeks.