Infectious Disease - Feline Leukemia
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Scan day: 20 February 2014 UTC
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Description: Information on FeLV including, but not limited to, symptoms, mortality rates, survivability and transmission methods.
It is pretty confusing to deal with in litters of youngkittens. It is entirely possible for only part of the litter or even onekitten to be infected and the rest of the litter unaffected. Some kittens(or cats) who are infected with feline leukemia will develop immunity tothe virus and will not ever become ill from it. Probably about 30% of thetime this happens. Some kittens will be able to sequester the virus inthe bone marrow or central nervous system where it will not cause harmuntil some future stress occurs and causes the immune system to fail inits suppression of the virus. This is usually considered to be a latentinfection. Some cats can tolerate the virus but can not suppress it. Thesecats have virus in their bloodstream constantly. They are carriers of thedisease because they are infectious to other cats. Finally, some cats diefrom the initial infection. This wouldn't be too confusing except for onething. There is no easy way that I know of to tell the difference betweena cat who becomes immune and one who is latently infected. So it is veryhard to be sure that future problems won't crop up if a kitten tests positivefor the virus and then later tests negative.
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