Other Animal Disease -- United States
A deadly disease passed from bobcats to domestic cats through ticks is on the rise.
NewsChannel 5 in Nashville [Tennessee] talked to an area veterinarian, Dr Frankie Locklar of Maury County Animal Hospital in Columbia, about the disease.
"Actually the last 3 years we've seen an uptick [in bobcat fever]," Locklar explained. "Used to, you'd see 1 or 2 cases a summer. Now we're actually starting to see in the 20s."
Bobcat fever is almost always fatal in domestic cats. "It [the lone star
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