I haven't heard that anyone is presently doing any research on felines with Staph Protein A. What would really be frustrating would be to find someone to do it and have great success and then not be able to get Staph Protein A because it is not authorized as a drug or treatment for anything. Maybe we could get the USDA to give a provisional license like LTCI has if we can get someone to do a research project. As you know, LTCI did not have a LOT of data when they got the license for that.
Gary -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MaryChristine Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Felvtalk] Research into FeLV: was Staph Protein A wow, hebert, thank you for these great posts! (and your english is better than many who claim to be native speakers.) i have always been under the impression, tho, that FIV, not FeLV, was considered by researchers to be more analogous to HIV/AIDS (an early hypothesis which i believe has been adequately disproven), even tho it appears to those of us who aren't scientists but have done the best reading they can that FeLV is much closer in manner of transmission, manifestation, and course. gary, have pedersen or levy done any work with this? they're the two folks, off-hand, that i can think of who have consistently continued actually researching FeLV--susan little, as well, seems to have been fairly on top of what research is going on..... might they know about any researchers currently working on this? i remember when i first got involved with FeLV, from living at a sanctuary, and i was asking why no one was doing safe, minimally invasive research on the three main populations of FeLVs in the countries, at that time Best Friends, us, and Angel Wings (in terms of population size)--i was told then that answering the questions that folks on this list and others were already asking would probably require catching the interest of a drug company, as private or academic researchers wouldn't likely have the funding..... (back to my usual comment about how difficult it is to do research on a population that is regularly treated by immediate euthanasia.) i'm not sure how many folks here really realize that a great deal of research on genetic conditions in cats could not have come about without the involvement--and fundraising--on the part of breeders, determined to eradicate killers in their own breeds (HCM in maine coons and bengals immediately comes to mind.) FeLV owners aren't as identifiable an entity as cattery owners, and while their emotional investment is just as great, i'm not sure how to mobilize "us" to perhaps do the same for this illness..... _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list [email protected] http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
