"a fungal disease that attacks cats, causing oozing skin ulcers and worse, and spreads to humans... has sickened and killed thousands of cats and infected more than 11,000 people and at least 200 dogs in South America since its emergence in Brazil in the 1990s"
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It’s just a matter of time before Sporothrix brasiliensis reaches the U.S. a CDC expert says.