Feline Coronavirus and FIP Diagnosis & Prevention
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2020
- At the time of this webinar (May 2020) most of the world is reeling from the emergence of a novel human coronavirus (CoV), known as SARS-CoV2. Yet for many cat breeders and rescue shelter workers, the fact that coronaviruses can wreak havoc and misery comes as no surprise: most of them have already done battle with feline coronavirus (FCoV) and its occasional fatal consequence, feline infectious peritonitis (FIP).
In this webinar we will discuss:
• FCoV/FIP prevention
• FIP diagnosis in a nutshell
• in passing, mention will be made of differences and similarities between COVID-19 and FCoV/FIP: what can doctors learn from our veterinary experience and what can doctors teach vets? 
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My cat Petty just passed away because of this diseases. thank you dr for providing much more info than my local vet clinic
My cat died of FIP yesterday. A beautiful 5 month old baby Ragboll, such a beautiful boy. I will miss him so much. This is a terrible disease where breeders should take more responsibility to test them before selling them. In honour of my baby Giddeon 07/05/22 🕊💔🤍
Sorry to hear of your loss but there is no FIP test available. When pedigree cats are adopted, they provide a health certificate and within their contract it states to also take the kitten to your own vet for checkup within 72 hours. The FIP disease is not a gene. It’s a mutation of a common cat disease.
Finally is out there a treatment that can help us to save our kittens. We start the treatment one day ago. Hugo is stable now.
Brilliant webinar 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you for the great video and really useful information.
My cat is an indoor cat without access to outdoors (since she was 2 months old, she is now almost 5 years old and she is our only cat) and was recently diagnosed with Feline Coronavirus after a fecal PCR test result showed as Positive. Besides that she was also diagnosed with a Cryptosporidium spp. and with a high value of Clostridium perfringens Alphatoxina - Gen (all of these tests were conducted ending of December because she is having diarrehea since September 2020. After many tests with our current veterenary since September, they were able to find the results showed before). Our main question is if this Positive result to the Feline Coronavirus can be a false positive since she has currently a parasite and a bacteria with a high value (as showed in the image on minute 13:34).
For us would be really important to understand if she is in fact positive because in February we will adopt a pedigree cat (Ragdoll girl, 3 months old) and we are really scared that this little baby can be infected with Feline Coronavirus and then later develop into FIP. How can we know if our cat is part of the 13% that carry the virus persistently? She didn't have any case of Feline Coronavirus before because this is the first time that she was tested for this. How many months should we wait, in order to be on the safer side, to introduce the two cats after the Feline Coronavirus is tested as negative?
Thank you and best regards from Portugal!
Dear Saraiva,
Thank you for your question.
According to Dr. Diane Addie's paper, because the virus can be shed intermittently, in order to identify a chronic shedding carrier, a cat should be fecal virus-positive on multiple tests over an 8-month period. Negative results on monthly tests over a 5-month period of time may be considered a non-shedder.
(Addie D.D., Jarrett O. 2001 Use of a reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for monitoring the shedding of feline coronavirus by healthy cats. Veterinary Record. Vol 148. pp. 649-653.)
If your cat will be considered as a non-shedder, then a new cat can be introduced to your home.
From a blog I wrote on the Biogal website:
WHEN IS IT SAFE TO REINTRODUCE AN FCOV- UNINFECTED CAT INTO YOUR HOME?
Coronaviruses are fragile viruses, meaning that traces of the virus should disappear in a few hours to days. However, when covered by dried-up feces and cat litter, FCoV can remain infectious possibly up to 7 weeks; for this reason, it’s important to vacuum thoroughly and steam clean carpets, especially around the litter trays. After one to two months, it should be safe enough to let the cat enter the pet owner’s home.
Before the cat’s returning home, traces of the virus could be removed from the cat’s belongings by steam cleaning or using a common cleaning disinfectant. Decontamination of bowls, the cat’s litter box and bedding can be performed easily by using a dishwasher, a simple scrub, and a washing machine (at 60℃), respectively.
You are welcome to check Dr. Diane Addie's website, it is highly informative, including new findings regarding FIP treatment and monitoring - www.catvirus.com.
Good luck!
I'm sorry I didn't see your posting until now. Nowadays the RT-PCR tests are more sensitive than the one I was using earlier this century, and can pick up low amounts of virus, so I would have your cat's faeces tested again. If she is a carrier, then just 5-7 days of Mutian pills will stop her shedding virus. I would test your new Ragdoll kitty too - in fact all the cats in your household. My preliminary results appear to indicate that stopping virus shedding early prevents FIP. Please follow me on MeWe, which is a privacy honouring alternative to Facebook: www.mewe.com/i/catvirus1
Sorry I forgot to say - get Protexin Prokolin enterogenic probiotics to get your cat's microbiome back on track. You'll also find that Applaws chicken and pumpkin canned food helps cats with digestive disorders.
My cat is extremely sick ,, suffering from FIP,,but I have no money for the treatment,,he is dying day by day,,I asked for help buht nobody was there to help me...Alas for the people who call themselves Rich,,,,they are poor
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My cat was just diagnosed with FCV today and has had abdominal bloating, smelly loose stools and reduced energy that doesn't go away. I'm very concerned it is FIP. He was given deworming medication the day of the vet visit (he wasn't officially tested for worms, the medicine was just given). His blood labs came back with elevated Albumin (4.3 g/dL), low platelet count (68 uL) and high Eosinophils (1034 uL). I know you mentioned A/G ratio in the video.. his score is 1.2. His symptoms have Not gotten better. My vet recommended to call him if his symptoms gets worse and I'm not sure what to do next. I live in the U.S. and I believe the medication that is used to treat FIP isn't available here. Do I get him tested again if his symptoms don't go away and what do I test? What is a treatment for the bloated belly symptoms? I'm very scared :-(
Hi there,
I'm really sorry to hear about your cat's condition :(
I've just forwarded your questions to our medical advisor, and hopefully she could shed some more light on the matter.
Please just send us your email address to info@biogal.com, so that we can send you her reply.
Thanks!
Hi there,
Thank you for your question.
Here are some points to look at when FIP is suspected (full blog link - www.biogal.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-feline-coronavirus-fcov-fip/):
There are two common forms of FIP: a ‘wet’ form and a ‘dry’ form. In both forms, the clinical signs vary depending on the involved organs, such as the peritoneum, pleurae, liver, kidneys, central nervous system (CNS), and eyes…
Furthermore, in the ‘wet’ form, obvious thick yellow fluids build up in the cat’s belly or chest. The disease develops within 4-6 weeks from infection and has an extremely stressful effect on both cats and owners. In contrast, the ‘dry’ form’s clinical signs are usually vague, including weight loss, lack of energy, and appetite. The disease develops over a longer period, potentially even a year, but usually takes a toll within several weeks to a few months.
Although both ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ forms have a history of nearly a 100% mortality rate, there are some new insights regarding the treatment and prevention possibilities of FCoV/FIP that are being further investigated.
While most cats recover from FCoV infection, some factors could increase the likelihood of FIP developing: these include a cat’s young age (in particular, kittens between 3 months to 2 years old), a genetic breed tendency, the cat’s immune status, stress levels and the dose and virulence of the virus, as well as high infection rates in the households, shelters, and catteries where there are several cats infected by FCoV and the shedding virus.
You are welcome to check out Dr. Diane Addie website, it is highly informative: www.catvirus.com.
Thank you for this info. Wish it didn’t have so much covid vaccine fear statements, because as we now know vaccines can be very effective against human covid. Would have liked your lecture to remain on felines, but I did learn a lot nevertheless.
Ugh. Vaccines are not affective. I hope you know that by now.