Micah Hayes's cat Mr. Sammie had never bitten anyone before until that fateful day and an encounter with a friend's dog.

trapping the bacteria and making the tissue beneath the skin a “fertile” ground for infection, Gaillard said. In one study by the Mayo Clinic, 1 in 3 cat bites to the hand required ...

Another reason that cat bites are uniquely risky are due to the presence of a bacteria called pasteurella multocida, which is one of the major causes of hand infections from cat bites. Pasteurella ...

Cat bites may look less serious than dog bites, but beware: They can cause dangerous infections, particularly when they involve the hand, new research indicates. Although cats have no more germs in ...

This is especially true if your hand is involved ... immunocompromised or have conditions like diabetes. Infection is the result of cat bites that medical providers are most concerned about.

A man bitten by a stray cat in the U.K. developed an infection from a bacterial species ... department in 2020 with painful bilateral hand swelling eight hours after being bitten several times ...

who was admitted to the emergency department in 2020 with hand swelling, multiple puncture wounds and abrasions, about eight hours after sustaining bites from a feral cat. Researchers, including ...