👩6 diseases that cats and humans share, you must know ⚠️

Many diseases of cats can be transmitted to humans. When cat owners have close contact with cats, they are likely to be infected with various diseases of cats.
According to statistics, there are about 40 diseases that cats and humans share, among which the following 6 are more common:
⚠️ Ringworm
Ringworm is a skin disease caused by fungal infection such as Microsporum. Cats and humans can become sources of infection. Human athlete’s foot can also become ringworm when it infects cats.
Symptoms:
🐱Cats: Round or oval ringworm spots appear on the skin, accompanied by a large amount of gray scales, and symptoms of hair loss or hair breakage.
👩Humans: Red papules or small blisters appear on the skin, accompanied by severe itching, and will continue to spread outward.
⚠️Cat scratch fever
10% of pet cats and 33% of stray cats may carry a bacterium called Bartonella in their blood. When infected with humans, it can cause a disease characterized by swollen lymph nodes and fever, which is called cat scratch fever or cat scratch disease.
Symptoms:
🐱Cats: No symptoms.
👩Humans: After being infected with cat scratch fever, people will experience symptoms such as inflamed, swollen, painful lymph nodes, fever, and rashes on the limbs.
90% of cases heal themselves without medication, but a few may experience headaches, anorexia, vomiting, and even meningitis.
⚠️Toxoplasma
Cats are the terminal hosts of Toxoplasma, and the intermediate hosts are reptiles, fish, birds, mammals, and humans. Toxoplasma can parasitize in cells and spread to various parts of the brain, heart, etc. through the blood, causing various diseases.
Symptoms:
🐱Cats: No obvious symptoms. In the acute stage, symptoms such as mental depression, decreased appetite, 🤒fever, and drinking a lot of water may occur.
👩Humans: There are no obvious symptoms, but pregnant women infected can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, slow fetal development and other symptoms.
⚠️External parasites
Fleas, lice, mites and other external parasites are zoonotic parasites, especially fleas, which are very active and are more likely to spread to humans.
Symptoms:
🐱Cats: Itchy skin, hair loss, small red spots, anemia, weight loss, etc.
👩Humans: Itchy skin, red spots, pimples, etc.
⚠️Rabies
Rabies is also a zoonotic disease. Although it is called rabies, many animals such as cats, wolves, foxes, bats, 🦡mice, etc. can be infected.
Symptoms:
🐱Cats: Hyperactive, frequent shouting, dilated pupils, irritable and aggressive, afraid of light, drooling.
👩Humans: headache, fatigue, ants feeling, fever at the bite site, nausea and vomiting🤢, drooling, difficulty swallowing, etc.
⚠️Salmonella infection
Salmonella is a bacterium that causes intestinal infection in cats. If cats often eat raw meat or some wild animal meat, they are likely to carry this bacteria.
Symptoms:
🐱Cats: diarrhea, loss of appetite, pregnant cats may cause miscarriage.
👩Humans: abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, etc.