Cats make the perfect pets - they're low maintenance and independent. But doctors warn they may be exposing you to any number of potentially deadly diseases. In the past few days, public health officials revealed the first person had died from Alaskapox - an extremely rare smallpox-like bacteria - and an Oregon resident was hospitalized with the Bubonic plague, an archaic disease that killed one-third of Europe's population in the 1300s. In both cases, the patients had caught the disease from a cat.
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Please don't become a second Pope Gregory IX
ReplyDeleteSeriously, the Pope hated cats, so he blamed the plague on them. So many cats were killed, which made the plague worse because the cats helped keep in check the rodents carrying the fleas that carried the plague. It made the plague worse, not better, killing cats.
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