Re: [Felvtalk] feline leukemia virus outdoors

2009-09-05 Thread TANYA NOE
Cindy, The FELV virus is not hardy and cannot survive long outside the body. There is still debate over whether it lasts for hours or days on dry surfaces (though most will say hours), and obviously it will last a bit longer on a wet surface. I personally would think that 2 weeks is more than

Re: [Felvtalk] feline leukemia virus outdoors

2009-09-05 Thread Gloria B. Lane
I would agree - certainly it's safe. It's gone by now. Gloria On Sep 5, 2009, at 5:24 PM, TANYA NOE wrote: Cindy, The FELV virus is not hardy and cannot survive long outside the body. There is still debate over whether it lasts for hours or days on dry surfaces (though most will say