Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-21 Thread jbero tds.net
I am sorry, but I am not familiar with feLIX and my only association with AAFP is the american association of family practitioners. I'm not sure why felv would be addressed in any guidelines they put out. Could you enlighten me. Jenny On 4/20/10, MaryChristine twelvehousec...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-20 Thread jbero tds.net
Yeah, it's felv type c. You know how there are three types A and B being those transmitted and C being the mutated form that primarily causes disease. Let me see if I can find a good paper. Jenny On 4/20/10, MaryChristine twelvehousec...@gmail.com wrote: jeni, i have NEVER seen or heard

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-20 Thread MaryChristine
i do know that there are different strains, but really haven't encountered this before--so anything you send to the list will be gratefully digested! On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM, jbero tds.net jb...@tds.net wrote: Yeah, it's felv type c. You know how there are three types A and B being

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-20 Thread jbero tds.net
Okay this is going to take awhile but here's a sort explanation from a pet md website. I should clarify - type C being the mutation I most fear - causes the severe anemia and rapid decline to death. It is what I have seen multiple times. FelV is a retrovirus, an enveloped RNA virus which uses

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-20 Thread MaryChristine
FeLIX, indeed! however, having that info, a really quick search shows stuff back from the early 2000s; i can't follow-up right now, but there were a number of things that showed up in early research back then that has been completely invalidated by further stuff. anyone remember if FeLIX was

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-20 Thread jbero tds.net
Okay, this is kind of technical but it basically supports the idea that mutations (in this case deletions in DNA) result in a more virulent and pathogenic virus worsening the disease state as these mutations are gained by the virus. Here's the link. http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/70/1/359.pdf

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-20 Thread MaryChristine
check the date: 1996. see my other note! i found a link to a 2000 article in the same journal. is there anything later than, say, 2005? MC On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:31 PM, jbero tds.net jb...@tds.net wrote: Okay, this is kind of technical but it basically supports the idea that mutations (in

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-20 Thread jbero tds.net
Granted it is older, but I see nothing in the literature later to refute this information. On 4/20/10, MaryChristine twelvehousec...@gmail.com wrote: check the date: 1996. see my other note! i found a link to a 2000 article in the same journal. is there anything later than, say, 2005? MC

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-20 Thread MaryChristine
there's no mention of it in the 2008 AAFP guidelines, and i would expect it to be there. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:51 PM, jbero tds.net jb...@tds.net wrote: Granted it is older, but I see nothing in the literature later to refute this information. On 4/20/10, MaryChristine

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-19 Thread trmckelvey
Hi Jenny, Good information, thank you for the investigation. If you have further contact, could you ask about the risks of using steroids? Since you already have contact, it's probably better if you could ask rather than the man being bombarded with emails from the rest of us :-) My vets

Re: [Felvtalk] Knox and treatment of felv

2010-04-19 Thread gary
I'm glad to hear that he is willing to communicate with you. That the treatment only results in the suppression of the virus, is a little disappointing. This would make it about equivalent to the claims of Dr. Belfield for his vitamin C therapy. He claims he cured every FeLV positive cat