I've gotten the impression that there's not much going on in the way of
FELV research. Do you believe this is true or not? Gloria
At 05:20 PM 12/8/2004, you wrote:
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Subject: Re: Research studies in California?
> There is still some interest in FeLV because of the correlations that
> can be drawn for human immune suppressive diseases, but no one seems to
> be searching for a cure for the cats afflicted with it.
Although FeLV belongs to the family Retroviridae, it belongs to the genus
Oncornavirinae. The feline retrovirus of human interest is the FIV
retrovirus of the genus Lentivirinae because it belongs to same genus as the
human AIDS virus.
This is one instance where humans are test subjects for feline research! ;-)
Ong.
