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 Daily Mail newspaper this rare skin disease that causes blisters on the skin has not been monitored before anywhere outside South America, reports Al-Rai daily quoting Sky News.
Three 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.
