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Please Be Careful As This Disease Might Affect A Person Who Own Pets


After reading this story you will be careful from your pets that are sick or not fit and healthy.

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The individual who is in the limelight of this story suffered some kind of boils near his neck which he got from his cat who was suffering from lethal infection.

68 years anonymous man hailing from Missouri felt that there was some boil kind of swelling on his neck. These boils seemed like swelling, were red and along with that those swelling were painful. They remained on his left side of the neck for two years and it was not revealed that what it was unless tests were performed.

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After blood tests were conducted it was found that it was Tularemia. Tularemia is an infection that holds the capability of threatening one’s life by causing pneumonia. Only 60 percent of the cases suffer pneumonia whereas its symptoms also vary from person to person.  Human beings are affected by it through Tuck bites, undercooked meal or through infected animals.

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The way it has many causes of infection in the same way its symptoms vary from person to person such as some people suffer from skin ulcers and some suffer from stomach ulcers. Stomach ulcers are caused due to eating or drinking contaminated food which might lead to sore throat, tonsils and swollen lymph nodes.

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Among all of the conditions, pneumatics is fatal and is caused due to breathing in a pathogenic air it directly affects the lungs. Whereas that man got this disease from his cat who died before he got this swelling. He was, however, recovered after taking antibiotics for the whole month.

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At first, he did not visit any hospital and after two months his situation got worse. When he got severe fever he then visited the doctor at a hospital named Barnes-Jewish in St. Louis where he got to know that these swellings are actually lymph nodes which have been enlarged.

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His blood tests revealed that he is suffering from Glandular Tularemia. Doctors asked him if he reminds of anything through which he got this disease to which he told that he had a cat that died of feline leukemia two days back. His cat was diagnosed with cancer by a vet who did not perform lab tests.

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However, doctors came to know that this man caught this disease named Francisella when he gave a cancer drug “prednisone” to the infected cat. This infection is known to be the second most common infection which is caused by “Francisella Tularensis”.

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