Infection rates can be as high as 45 percent or more. Some cat parasites have the potential to infect humans as well. For these zoonotic diseases, parasite control is important to human health as well as that of the cats involved. There are also some external parasites that cause additional...
Infection is harder to prevent and treat in areas of poor blood supply and dead tissue. It can be an ongoing problem in cases of laminitis, acute and chronic, leading to recurring abscesses and occasionally infection of the pedal bone (infective osteitis/osteomyelitis). Bone infection can even...