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Behalf Of catatonya
Sent: Wednesday, June
15, 2005 11:36 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: RE: This is what the vet
said...
True. I really think anyone bringing new cats
who test negative should still retest 60-90 days later to be truly sure.
And then during that time the cat could
When my cat tested positive, they tested with the IFA the same day. Of course, my cat was dreadfully ill. With my negative cats that were exposed, they had me have tests every 90 days for a year. Then I moved to every six months for a year. I am due now for another test and if it is neg, I will go
When this first happened to me I retested and retested. I finally stopped. Now I only retest if one of my negatives gets sick. We test immediately to rule that out. Over (it's been about 10 years now nearly) this time I've lost one positive and 4 negatives. Even when my negatives got sick and died
Your
instincts are rightthis vet doesnt sound like he knows what hes
talking about! Both my pos were tested with IFA almost immediately after
pos Elissa. If the IFA is neg, then retesting at various intervals is in
order in the archives there is a chart that talks about discordant
results
i don't think you have to wait 30 days, but unless you have some
idea of when the cat was exposed, a positive test may mean
nothing--just as a negative may not, for that matter--80% of healthy
adults seem to throw off the virus, so knowing at what stage you're
testing is the only way to know if a
dearly without ever knowing if they were pos or not!
Chris
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TenHouseCats
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:13 PM
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: This is what the vet said...
i
The IFA is more definitive, but I really don't see any reason to give it right away. If Tom still tests positive or even negative on the elisa in 30 days I would retest with IFA as a means of double checking the results. Tom is a lucky cat to have found such a good home!
Also, I didn't realize
True, you can do it right away, but if the IFA comes back negative I still don't think you'd want to vaccinate for felv without waiting an interval of time, so why waste the money on a 2nd test right now? If it were me, I would wait 60 days to be sure, and then I would go have both tests. That is
y, June 15, 2005 4:13 PMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: Re: This is what the vet said...i don't think you "have" to wait 30 days, but unless you have someidea of when the cat was exposed, a positive test may meannothing--just as a negative may not, for that matter--80% of healthy
Tonya,
I didn't know there was a heartworm test either! They did a blood test that will take from 1-7 days (I guess they run 2 tests on it). There was an article in our paper that heartworm is particularly bad this year, and since he came in from outside, we wanted to be sure. It was marked in his
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