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The biggest concern after Rabies is infection. If the skin was broken and blood was drawn go to a health care provider, have it cleaned out and see if you need to be put on antibiotics.
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I know that some people are allergic to cat scratches & bites and can develop fevers when they're attacked. It's call "cat scratch disease" but I only know one person who's ever had it (and I've grown up with cats all my life.
You can get rabies if the cat who bit you has them. And you can get the infection toxoplasmosis from cats ~ this is a particular danger to pregnant women who clean litter boxes, because the disease is carried in a cat's feces. If a pregnant woman gets toxoplasmosis, she can transfer it to her unborn child (congenital toxoplasmosis).
Plus you can get ringworm from cats, but I'm not sure if that's via a bite or not. Usually cat bites are cleaner than human bites because their bacteria is different than ours and doesn't respond to our bodies the same way.
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http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/d/diseases_contagious_from_cats/intro.htm
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