Thanks again MC for another informed and easily understandable post
about a very scary subject. I go around quoting you all the time. I
sent this to Sally Foster, (remember her from the list?). She just lost
another one under a year old, poor thing has lost so many this year.
She suspects that Peppurr, her latest loss, had FIP. I seem to
remember a vet telling me that it usually develops in geriatric cats, or
cats under a year. Is that your experience?
Nina
TenHouseCats wrote:
marta, FIP is currently considered to be a mutated corona virus--so
the corona virus is contagious (they estimate something like 80-90% of
cats in a multi-cat environment will have been exposed to it and show
a high titre--roughly the same percentage of humans will show a titre,
too, as the corona virii are such common causes of uris in many
species...). the mutation, however, is neither predictable nor
preventable.
