One in 16 Pet Cat Stool Samples Tested Positive for Giardia, and About 18% Carried Human-Capable Strains
About 1 in 16 cat stool samples tested at a large commercial veterinary lab contained Giardia, a gut parasite that causes diarrhea. A study of U.S. and Canadian cats in PLOS ONE, published Oct. 7, found the parasite in 9,962 of 157,616 samples, or 6.3%. …