The results illustrate that while great strides in diagnostics have been made over the last decade,
wildlife diseases present unique challenges because less is currently known than remains unknown about them.
[FN53] But potential for cats to transmit
diseases presents a health hazard to humans as well as a threat to
wildlife, because rabies, toxoplasmosis, cat scratch fever, encephalitis (from cat scratch fever), plague, hookworms and roundworms can be contracted by humans through contact with infected cats.