In Britain, cases of a “painful” skin disease transmitted to humans through cats were detected, in cases that are the first of their kind ever in this country, after the disease remained linked to regions in South America.
According to the newspaper “Daily Mail”, this rare skin disease that causes blisters on the skin has not been monitored before anywhere outside South America.
And 3 Britons reported what looked like fungus on the skin, saying that they suffer from blisters and wounds in separate areas of the body, such as the hand, wrist and arm.
And health officials in Britain explained that the three infected people contracted the infection from one cat brought by its owner from Brazil, where the disease originally spread.
Analyzes were conducted for the three, and the result was positive against the well-known Brazilian fungal disease “sporotrichosis brasiliensis”.
Despite the suffering of the injured and their need to seek treatment, they recovered completely at a later time.
Symptoms of the disease begin with the appearance of what looks like scratches and wounds, in areas that have been exposed to infection directly.
The infection can also be transmitted to the human eye, lung, bones and joints, and sometimes it may extend to the central nervous system, according to Sky News Arabia.
World Health Organization data indicate that this infection, which usually has moderate symptoms, poses a major threat to health, while the world is witnessing climate change that makes disease transmission easier.
