the problem with this response, which reflects the common book of knowledge
for many years, is that it contradicts the most recent research from
cornell. it's available on their FeLV pages--someone, surely, has the link.
that research shows that active particles of virus CAN )my emphasis) exist
outside the body for a much longer time than previously thought, having been
isolated out of dried secretions...
this is being used all over the country--which you know, kelley, dear!--as a
new excuse for killing FeLVs. even tho it is really nothing but an
interesting little factoid (something resembling a fact): FeLV is STILL
considered a low-contagion virus that takes persistent, prolonged contact
to transmit, it's still transmitted via bodily fluids.. we have no idea
how much virus it takes to infect another cat, but all the research points
to more than a single exposure to bodily fluids--so how can some active
virii found in dried secretions be of any real danger? (picturing the red
and white FIV coonie checking to make sure everyone's asleep, before
sneaking up on the dried remainders of a lorelei sneeze, and somehow
rehydrating it, sucking it up into a syringe, then injecting it into the
bloodstream of one of the other cats... ARGGGH.
okay, i'll go back to packing now.
MC
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Kelley Saveika moonv...@gmail.com wrote:
I am no fan of the ASPCA, but I heard this woman talk at a presentation
and
enjoyed her talk.
I had a foster hold two pos kitties for transport to a sanctuary and she
wanted to know about disinfecting the bathrooms, so I wrote to the ASPCA
vet, Dr Miranda Spindel. It seems to be what we have been saying all along
and not what Cornell says.
She states:
Feline leukemia virus is really an easy virus to kill in the environment.
Not only that, the virus is what we call very labile...meaning it lives
for only a short time (probably minutes) outside the cat. So my suggestion
would be to clean with 1:32 bleach anyway (it can't hurt if there was
another pathogen present) but not to worry very much about this virus when
bringing in new rescues.
Wood and wallpaper aren't ideal, but if the wood is sealed and painted (in
a
bathroom it probably is) it is usually pretty sanitizable.
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first
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