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Cape Flats cat owners warned of rise in incurable Feline Leukaemia Virus
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Cape Town – THE Animal Welfare Society of SA has issued a warning to cat owners that they have noticed a worrying rise in the number of unvaccinated cats testing positive for Feline Leukaemia Virus.
The organisation said that Feline Leukaemia Virus (FeLV) is one of the leading causes of death in cats and over the past few weeks they’ve noticed the increase of cases on the Cape Flats.
“There is sadly no cure for FeLV, but this can be preventable. FeLV only affects cats and cannot be transmitted to people, dogs, or other animals.
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Vet Alice Moore Sometimes, as a vet, you will have a day or a run of days where you seem to see lots of the same condition, and it is hard to know if this is a coincidence or “something going around”. In the last week I have seen lots of cats with temperatures – this could either be unusual luck or there could be an infection doing the rounds in the cat population. These cats have all responded to medicine that brings their temperature down, something to treat any underlying infection and plenty of TLC at home. Luckily, we can vaccinate against many of the major viruses that affect cats but there are still infections out there that we cannot vaccinate against. When I first graduated (in the late 1990s) we were still regularly seeing cats infected with Feline Leukaemia Virus (FeLV), this was a horrible disease to see; it generally affected young cats and they would present with nasty internal cancers and sickness that we could not cure. It was a huge relief to see a strong