In the paper today ! Cat owners catch TB ...........................

[dark_castle1]

In the paper they are saying that two cat owners have caught tuberculosis from their cats !

The bacterium was detected in nine cats from different homes in Berkshire and Hampshire and that the two cases are the first ever recorded of feline to human transmissionof the disease.

[cee-dee]

They started culling Badgers soooooooo........................................

[saasher2012]

TB, has been around since the sixth century & although uncommon is known to affect both dogs & cats, source of infection through contaminated milk or via human contact ie caught from humans & transferred back to humans, also through wounds,the TB bacillus can affect many organs in the body not just the lungs.it can lay dormant in its host for quite awhile before showing any symptoms a truly virulent Clever , ever changing bacillus, still not truly understood!.

[dark_castle1]

We all know TB has been around for centuries. Public health England must stand corrected by you then saasher as it was they said it was the first ever recorded cases of cat to human transfer.

[saasher2012]

I never said anything about a recorded case!.

[dark_castle1]

True you did not but when you said it gets transferred back it sounded very much like it had happened before and you had read it somewhere or heard of it happening.

[rose2008-2008]

I had heard that TB generally had made a reappearance in the last decade. this cat to human is a surprise,ohhhherrr.

[saasher2012]

Read my post again please, I quite clearly said it is uncommon, but is known to infect cats & dogs, at no time have I said it has been reported or proved!.nor have I stated I know more than the health authorities . I also never said anything about this country.
I will say this, TB in humans due to vaccination has nearly been eradicated, but! A new form of TB was discovered a few years ago.as I also stated the TB Bacillus is very clever .

[saasher2012]

There is nothing to worry about Rose, this is typical media scaremongering.

[dlpl999]

Wonder why it has took a year for this to be reported and this is not country wide Berkshire I believe it was reported that a vets cat in Berkshire was infected. This is Bovine TB believed to be caught from cattle, badgers and small rodents.

[dark_castle1]

read my post again please ! at no time did I state you said it had been reported ! I said it sounded like you had read it or heard it somewhere. Also I did not state you knew more than the authorities ! I said they should stand corrected if what they said was wrong because I was only repeating what they said. Lastly please point out to me where I said anything about this country other than stating the obvious fact that the authorities had said in the paper that these cases were in Berkshire and Hampshire ! I at no point said you said anything about this country.

[dark_castle1]

Possibly it was not reported earlier just in case it brought upon wide spread unfounded panic and people wanting cats culled if they were found wandering outdoors.

In total nine cats were found to be carrying mycobacterium bovis between December 2012 and April 2013. Only two people caught TB with another two having latent TB.

[electric*mayhem*band]

In a recent survey carried out for 'Feline Weekly', eight out of ten people said all cats should be exterminated.

[dark_castle1]

I am very surprised at that statistic EMB ! I thought it would have been much lower as we are meant to be a nation of animal lovers.

[tommy.irene]

A policeman in the big city stops a man in a car with a Siberian Lynx in the front seat. "What are you doing with that Siberian Lynx?" He exclaimed, "You should take it to the zoo." The following week, the same policeman sees the same man with the cat again in the front seat, with both of them wearing sunglasses. The policeman pulls him over. "I thought you were going to take that cat to the zoo!" The man replied, "I did. We had such a good time we are going to the beach this weekend!"

[tommy.irene]

I caught TB from my pet cat: Teenager tells how she was rushed to hospital with severe lung damage

• Jessica Livings, 19, caught TB from her pet kitten Onyx
• She is thought to be the first case of cat-to-human transmission
• Had to be rushed to hospital for surgery on severely damaged lungs
• She was feverish, hallucinating and lost a stone and a half in five weeks
• Experts think she became infected while cleaning pet's open wound
  
• Onyx was one of nine cats in Home Counties thought to be infected
• Seven of the animals had bite marks believed to be from badgers
• News emerged as child caught TB from her dog, which had to be destroyed
  

UPDATED: 01:08 GMT, 29 March 2014

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591930/I-caught-TB-pet-cat-Teenager-tells-rushed-hospital-s... 

[queenelsa83]

I don't believe that the risk to humans is very high at all, only very rarely, a tiny handful of cases a year, if that 🙂

[saasher2012]

First documented case, I believe is the correct terminology!