[I still care]

You thought that too? Why would a man take a mouse from a stray? Taking food from a stray animal.

These articles are worded so badly. Came up with my biology kids, and we were wondering which bit him. The cat? The mouse? The flea? This article seems to say the cat.

[Olog-hai]

Cat bites usually result in blood poisoning, and a bad case of such. Plague can be transmitted too, of course. Other articles such as from the Toronto Sun confirm that the man was bitten by the cat.