The fungus has another unusual means of spread: Cats can sneeze out infectious yeast, researchers reported in Medical Mycology in 2022. “When the cat’s sneezing, it’s going on the surface, it’s going ...

“The concern is reasonable and real,” one doctor says.

A rare fungal infection has been diagnosed in two cats and a vet tech who treated one of the animals, a new report warns. The three cases—discovered in Kansas in late 2022 and early 2023—were caused ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cluster of rare fungal infections was found in two pet cats and a vet who treated them, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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Scientists tested wild animals killed on Brazilian roads and found a harmful fungus, Sporothrix, inside birds, mammals, and ...

A cluster of rare fungal infections was found in two pet cats and a vet who treated them, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday in a report in the journal Emerging Infectious ...

The report comes as the CDC is monitoring the spread of a similar fungal infection, also in cats, in South America. That infection is spread by a related fungus called Sporothrix brasiliensis and hasn ...