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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:34:30 -0800
From: marta.gas...@yahoo.com
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] testing cats
I don't have enough authority/knowlegde to say I disagree with the last
statement "cats over the ag
site.
No idea why your vet went ahead with the vaccination before getting the test
results. The in house test only takes 10 minutes.
Sharyl
From: dppl dppl
To: "felvtalk@felineleukemia.org"
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 5:33 PM
Subject
I disagree that "cats that are over 16 weeks are virtually immune to the
disease" from my personal experience. I also know that it is the vaccination
for FIV that will always show a positive result on a test, but the FeLV
vaccination does not.
- Original Message -
From: dppl dppl
to Sheryl: I can't figure out how to reply to your msg but in that doc you
linked to, is this the most current protocol? If I understand correctly, it
says that you don't vaccinate until you get test results. well, my vet
thinking the cat was healthy, went ahead and vaccinated, even after I a
FeLV vaccine after 1st testing
them.
Sorry you stumbled across such mis-informtaion
Sharyl
From: Marta Gasper
To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] testing cats
I don't have enough auth
I don't have enough authority/knowlegde to say I disagree with the last
statement "cats over the age of 16 wks are virtually inmune to FeLV"..I'd say I
wished, because I have seen cats older than 3 yrs to get infected.
Whether it was the cat was sick and wasn't obvious even to an ELISA(wich I had
Interesting.
I don't really believe that 72% are false positives. I think the
percentages of that are much lower. I think most of the problems wtih
the ELISA come from improper handling of the kit. However, I like most
of everything else they said in the article. The ELISA doesn't give y
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