Across Missouri’s Ozarks, veterinarians say tick season has kept clinics busy as “bobcat fever” takes a toll on indoor cats.
Here’s what to know
With tick-related cases continuing to surface in the Ozarks, Dr. Chloe Eakins and Dr. Nancy Chilla of EastSide Veterinary Service told KY3 that prevention should extend to all pets, even cats and dogs that spend most of their time indoors.
“Bobcat fever is spread by a tick that has been in contact with a bobcat carrying a parasite called Cytauxzoonosis felis,” Eakins and Chilla explained.
The disease can become severe very quickly…