Maryn McKenna over at SUPERBUG has got a post up discussing a recent paper (see below) that looked at 3 cases of (human) infection with Pasteurella multocida. In all 3 cases it is thought that the patients involved caught the bacteria from nursing their sick pets. Pasteurella multocida is a nasty species of bacteria and infection with it can very [...]Image may be NSFW.
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