Other Animal Disease -- United States
A deadly assailant may be lurking in your backyard. Rural Norman residents mourn companion pets.
Ticks, and in particular the Lone Star tick, carry many diseases which can be hazardous to pets and humans. Few diseases are more deadly, however, than Bobcat fever, or _Cytauxzoon felis_, which infects cats and has a very high mortality rate.
"The Lone Star tick has been carrying this disease for a long time, and cats have been getting it for a long time," said Dr Laura Nafe, a veterinarian
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