Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1899 — Influenza from cats. [ARTICLE]

Influenza from cats.

“It was the cat,” is a phrase that excuses many things, and it may yet be used to account for the spread of the grip. Through the London Daily Mall a veterinary surgeon warns the public to beware of cats that have “colds.’’ “I have recently discovered,” he writes, “that in many parts of the west and northwest of London members of the feline race have been stricken with Influenza, and of a most dangerous form. As tbe disease may be contracted from pets, It behooves ladles and gentlemen not to handle or fondle afflicted animals. “I would particularly warn parents not to allow children to play with or go near a cat or dog which appears to have a slight cold.”