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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: Michelle (furbabystar) on July 12, 2007, 13:11:41 PM
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I was just reading on another board about someone who's cats has just died from panluek.
I gotta be honest i had never heard of it.
I have just looked it up and there seems there is a vaccine for it -
My question is,
Is it available in this country and is it included in the vacs we have done ??
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Feline panleukopenia is the correct name but is also called feline infectious enteritis this is basically the same virus that causes canine distemper. Your cats are vaccinated for it already , its part of their yearly jabs.
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Cheers Lynn.
Had she have called it Enteritis i would have known what it was !!
Her other cat is now showing signs of it, shame she hadnt had them both vaccinated for it !
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Lola got FIE even tho she was vaccinated, it was a mild case so she survived. At one point i did think i was going to lose her, she was admitted to the vets for several days and she loved it!
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pleased that Lola was ok.
That is the thing with vacs i purpose, its doesnt always stop them from getting something but it is norm a milder form if they do
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On my cats vacs form it says Feline Panleucopaenia, Feline Viral Rhinotrachetis, Feline Calicivirus and Feline Leukaemia.
My vet says although they could catch the virus with them still having the vacs it gives them a better chance of fighting it off as they have built up some immunity to it.
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My vet says although they could catch the virus with them still having the vacs it gives them a better chance of fighting it off as they have built up some immunity to it.
Your vet is right, no vaccine is 100% effective, but if say your cat got enteritis or cat flu the chances are they should not be so ill as perhaps they would have been had they not been injected. I have seen a whole household of cats wiped out with enteritis and known cats die of cat flu
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years ago these diseases wiped out hundreds, probably thousands of cats in uk each year. Thankfully the vaccs are pretty damned good.
As said, no vacc whether human or animal is 100% but generally the disease is in a much weaker form as the antibodies we have made by getting the vaccines will have worked quite well.