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Infectious Diseases
The feline flu is the most common virus in the cats, provoking sneezes, fever and watery in the nose and the eyes. According to the age and the general condition, the immunity defenses of the cat normally wins to the virus, but the antibiotics can help to avoid secondary microbial infections. It is possible to immunize the cat with a vaccine. The feline enteritis (crowns virus) is less common than the flu, but it can kill a young cat in a few hours. The virus propagates with the dregs and the disease begins with serious vomits and diarrhea. The cat is dehydrated rapidly and can suffer a collapse. The treatment is realized with whey intravenous. Exists the vaccine for this disease. The panleucopenia is the most deadly infectious disease for the cat and normally she is provoked by a virus that destroys the inmunity system of the animal. The virus propagates through the saliva, among the symptoms there are the rapid loss of weight or diseases of the mouth and the gums. There is no treatment, but it is possible to prolong the life of the animal with treatment. Vaccine exists. The feline clamidia produces conjunctivitis, a painful inflammation of the eye that is very infectious, You can vaccinate the cat. The virus of feline immunodeficiency is similar to human AIDS. It is transmitted by the bites or eating on the same dish and also it goes on from the mother to her litter. But it is believed that it does not propagate sexually. After a slight phase of disease and fever with increase of size of the lymphatic ganglions- goes a serious inmunodepresión: the cat does not eat, loses weight and presents infection in the gums, vomits and problems in the skin and the eyes. It is possible to reduce temporarily the gravity of these symptoms with antibiotic and corticosterona, but there is no vaccine and the disease is always mortal. The cats that it is known that they are carrying of it (that they can be healthy) must be permanently isolated of the not infected cats. The infectious feline anemia is a disease of the red blood cells caused by the bacterium hemobartonella. It is believed that it is in the flies those that spread it from an infected cat, but also the mother can transmit to her babies through the placenta. The symptoms are anemia, lethargy and loss of weight. There is no vaccine but the antibiotics are effective. The cats that have recovered can be carriers. The feline infectious peritonitis (PIF) it causes a crownvirus and it transmits by licking infected dregs or inhale drops with the virus. This disease is called "great performer", because it can affect to all the systems; in its first stage can appear generalized shymptoms as fewer, somnolency, loss of appetite and diahrrea and infections of the chest. Later they can be accumulated liquid in the abdomen, the chest or around the heart. Also they can present problems in the eyes or in central nervous system or be the only symptoms. The vaccines are ineffective. In the short term, a treatment can be usefully with corticosterona or antibiotics, but in the long term this disease is mortal. The toxoplasmosis it transmits a parasite that find in the animals of warm blood (included the man) and appears in the dregs. Near the half of the cats have toxoplasmosis in some moment of their life, but the symptoms appear principally whose having the immunity system damaged ; the diarrhea is the most common. As soon as it is in the deposition of a cat, this organism has to pass 24 hours in the dregs before being able to infect a human , and if the sand removes soon, there is no risk for the health of the owner. However, the pregnant women must not handle the sand of the cat, because the toxoplasmosis can be contagious to the unborn fetus. There is no vaccine. Normally, the treatment with an antiparasites medicine solves the problem in the cats that, apart from this, he is healthy. The anger is a virus that wounds the central nervous system, propagates for the bite of an infected animal and can be transmitted to the man. It can happen between 10 days and 6 months before the symptoms appear: the cat starts drooling and changes character; some become mad and others, retiring. Death is producing in approximately 5 to 7 days. The annual vaccination is fundamental, until if you lived in a country where the anger does not exist and that there is protected by strict laws of quarantine, as the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand or Australia.
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