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cat-scratch disease

American  
[kat-skrach] / ˈkætˌskrætʃ /

noun

Pathology.

  1. a disorder characterized by fever and swelling of the lymph glands, caused by a viral infection resulting from the scratch or bite of a cat.

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Like rats, cats can carry and transmit a variety of parasites and diseases to humans and wildlife, including rabies, hookworms, cat-scratch disease, typhus and plague.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017

Only recently have doctors recognized cat-scratch disease to account for the previously unexplained aches and fevers that occasionally afflict cat fanciers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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