Consider Cat-Scratch Disease in Unknown Fever

Rules for dealing with reptiles include washing hands thoroughly after handling them.

Also, reptiles should be kept out of child care centers and households in which there are children younger than 5 years or immunocompromised people living, he noted.

Dr. Lieberman disclosed that he is on a speakers' bureau for GlaxoSmithKline.

'Most patients do not require specific therapy, and the illness resolves on its own.' DR. LIEBERMAN

An 8-year-old girl with cat-scratch lymphadenopathy, which typically involves the nodes that drain the inoculation site, is shown. Courtesy Dr. Sherif Emil