Kittens can Transmit Tuberculosis Bacteria

Feline-human disease transmission was documented in two people in Britain. Two other cat owners have been infected with a dormant form of bovine TB, said a Daily Mail report. The infection was passed to each of the patients during an unprecedented outbreak of the disease among cats in Newbury, Berkshire. "These are the first documented cases of cat-to-human transmission," Dilys Morgan of Public Health England was quoted as saying. ...