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My male cat died today 
Yesterday in the late evening he suddendly felt sick and spent all the night staring at the wall and breathing heavily, the next morning my father brought him to the vet who did some exams and found out the reasons too late, months late, somehow he was infected in a catfight and gotten both leukemia and feline HIV, he died while asleep because of severe injures to liver and lungs.. he died while asleep just some hours after receiving first painkiller treatment
I didn't notice what was happening since several weeks, although I'm "glad" there was nothing I could do, not even with an early leukemia vaccination, for HIV by itself is an immediate death sentence, figure out if he had chances of living with leukemia as well... poor guy
Cat owners be careful when you let your cats on the outside, feline HIV and leukemia are both very common diseases which require just a scratch or a bite received from a previously infected cat. Humans are immune from both, but a cat infected with leukemia and/or feline HIV have no more than a couple of years left to live
FELINE LEUKEMIA
FELINE HIV/AIDS
Keeping cats indoor and cutting males' attributes is the only possible way of prevention, please don't do my mistake and protect your little friends
Yesterday in the late evening he suddendly felt sick and spent all the night staring at the wall and breathing heavily, the next morning my father brought him to the vet who did some exams and found out the reasons too late, months late, somehow he was infected in a catfight and gotten both leukemia and feline HIV, he died while asleep because of severe injures to liver and lungs.. he died while asleep just some hours after receiving first painkiller treatment
I didn't notice what was happening since several weeks, although I'm "glad" there was nothing I could do, not even with an early leukemia vaccination, for HIV by itself is an immediate death sentence, figure out if he had chances of living with leukemia as well... poor guy
Cat owners be careful when you let your cats on the outside, feline HIV and leukemia are both very common diseases which require just a scratch or a bite received from a previously infected cat. Humans are immune from both, but a cat infected with leukemia and/or feline HIV have no more than a couple of years left to live
FELINE LEUKEMIA
Each year, nearly one million cats are killed by Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV). FeLV is the number one cause of death due to infectious disease in cats. It is a retrovirus which replicates in the bone marrow, salivary glands and the cells lining the respiratory tract. The virus is most commonly transmitted through close and prolonged physical contact with an infected cat. The virus can be shed in the blood, urine, feces and most commonly, the saliva and respiratory secretions. A pregnant cat can also pass the virus to her kittens while in the uterus or, later, through nursing and grooming.
FELINE HIV/AIDS
In 1986 in Northern California a disease that was causing illness and death in cats was found to be caused by a virus similar to HIV, or the AIDS virus found in humans. There has also been little success in finding methods to treat those cats that have the disease, but we DO know enough about the disease to safeguard our pets from this fatal disorder.
Because of its similarity to the HIV virus, it was named FIV (feline immunodeficiency virus), and the disease it induces is known as FAIDS (feline acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
When a cat does develop illness, the body’s natural defense against disease is broken down. The cat is then susceptible to a great variety of infections, cancers, etc. No one specific symptom is typical. It might be a sickly cat who is not recovering promptly from an illness, or has a chronic illness such as infected teeth or gums, frequent diarrhea or discharge from the nose or eyes. While we do our best to control other infections these cats may acquire, we cannot cure them of the FIV infection, and it is usually fatal.
Many studies are currently investigating exactly how FIV is transmitted cat to cat. The most common method of transmission is through a bite wound inflicted by an infected cat. In this case the virus in its saliva enters the blood stream of the bite victim. Bite wounds, however, are not the only method of transmission and virus-to-blood contact is not always necessary. FIV infected mothers can transmit the virus to their offspring but not in utero. The transmission to offspring probably takes place during nursing, and experts feel the majority of kittens nursing FIV positive mothers don’t get the disease. It is still unknown whether transmission takes place during mating, but since biting can be part of the mating ritual, we have to assume it could. Experimentally scientists have been able to infect cats by giving the virus orally. We don’t know, however, in the natural setting of mutual grooming, sharing food bowls, etc., how often this occurs. It appears that in a setting where one cat in a house is FIV positive and has non-biting contact with other cats, those cats have a low probability of becoming infected
Because of its similarity to the HIV virus, it was named FIV (feline immunodeficiency virus), and the disease it induces is known as FAIDS (feline acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
When a cat does develop illness, the body’s natural defense against disease is broken down. The cat is then susceptible to a great variety of infections, cancers, etc. No one specific symptom is typical. It might be a sickly cat who is not recovering promptly from an illness, or has a chronic illness such as infected teeth or gums, frequent diarrhea or discharge from the nose or eyes. While we do our best to control other infections these cats may acquire, we cannot cure them of the FIV infection, and it is usually fatal.
Many studies are currently investigating exactly how FIV is transmitted cat to cat. The most common method of transmission is through a bite wound inflicted by an infected cat. In this case the virus in its saliva enters the blood stream of the bite victim. Bite wounds, however, are not the only method of transmission and virus-to-blood contact is not always necessary. FIV infected mothers can transmit the virus to their offspring but not in utero. The transmission to offspring probably takes place during nursing, and experts feel the majority of kittens nursing FIV positive mothers don’t get the disease. It is still unknown whether transmission takes place during mating, but since biting can be part of the mating ritual, we have to assume it could. Experimentally scientists have been able to infect cats by giving the virus orally. We don’t know, however, in the natural setting of mutual grooming, sharing food bowls, etc., how often this occurs. It appears that in a setting where one cat in a house is FIV positive and has non-biting contact with other cats, those cats have a low probability of becoming infected
Keeping cats indoor and cutting males' attributes is the only possible way of prevention, please don't do my mistake and protect your little friends
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) with her rear left leg bearing a NASTY infected open sore. We took her to the vet 2-3 weeks later and got her cleaned up and medicated. That was 11 and a half years ago. She gets yearly check-ups and required vaccinations and has been "as healthy as a horse" ever since.
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