Agreed - Cornell U. could do much better.
On Oct 15, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Chris wrote:
The only thing I don’t like about the Cornell site is that they
have not updated their overview information to reflect current
protocols. They still say you have to wait at least 30 days to use
a space in which there previously was a pos cat… also, are very
pessimistic about survival rate, and very much anti-mixing.
Chris
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I am rather new to FeLV but Cornell University has good sites for
information on this illness. If the anemia is from FeLV it has to
be in the bone marrow which according to what I have read, means
the FeLV has been with the cat for a long time. Our vet has our
Stinky cat on Interferon and amoxicillin. Yesterday she had a red
blood count of about 13 than a retest showed a count of 18 which
they feel is too high for a transfusion but, that will probably be
low enough by Monday for another transfusion. However, the anemia
may not be from FeLV at all. There are other things lurking out
there that cause it like FIA which is hard to detect but, the
doxycycline should handle that if that is what your cat has. And,
as Michelle has pointed out, and my vet has pointed out, it may be
cancer that is at the bottom of anemia so, don't despair, it may
not be FeLV. Even as sick as my Stinky cat is, I am still holding
out hopes that ELISA was wrong and the IFA test was right!
Best of luck and all our prayers!
Stinky's Mom and Dad
