Five cat diseases
June 21st, 2010
1. Feline leukemia, the disease is caused by a cat leukemia virus leukopenia; infectious diseases in cats of all media, this virus is most contagious one, even with the risk of contact with a cat can spread this disease.
clinical symptoms include weight loss, anemia, fever, gingivitis, diarrhea, etc.. Because different levels, diagnosis is difficult, requires the help of blood tests to determine. Feline leukemia model similar to human AIDS virus, will lead to immunosuppression, and causes lymphoma, leukemia, anemia, renal insufficiency, etc., this virus can also be stationary potential in the cat a few years after the bone marrow disease. Although kittens are more sensitive to the disease, but the disease is able to infect any age, species and sex of the cat.
2. Cat chlamydia pneumonia, chlamydia caused by the parrots of the highly contagious disease, mainly pneumonia caused by a cat.
initial clinical symptoms appeared conjunctivitis, and is then accompanied by fever, severe tears, and eye secretions become thick like; will appear rhinitis symptoms, including: nasal discharge, and play sneezing, nose and build concentration, etc.; late clinical symptoms of suppurative pneumonia, because of secretions within the airways and alveoli caused by excessive shortness of breath and pulmonary edema. Full course of about 30 days. More than 30 days after infection, still in the sick cats found in the conjunctival and lung diseases, so sick cats will be sustained even if the recovery of infected people.
3. Cat plague, the virus from the cat small meals leukopenia induced, highly infectious and destructive high. Disease is generally transmitted mainly by blood-sucking insects can also be transmitted or fleas, kittens are most vulnerable to infection in this disease; clinical symptoms of anorexia, depression, poor spirit, high fever, persistent vomiting, dark brown blood Li, the final due to sharp decline in white blood cell count and hemorrhagic enteritis caused by dehydration and loss of blood and death, the death rate is about 25 ~ 75%.
This virus is very stubborn, and even cross the placenta and infect kittens.
4. Carisi cat disease, cat cat Carisi virus mainly affects the upper respiratory tract, causing pneumonia or bronchial alveolar pneumonia. Department of clinical symptoms of tongue ulcers, fever, depression, anorexia, sneezing, drooling, eye and nose secretions increased, pneumonia, bronchitis and nasal symptoms of cat is very similar, clinically difficult to distinguish. Course of about 1 to 4 weeks; infection rate, but mortality rates varied up to 30%. 15 weeks to six months of the kitten if infected, will be presented with viral pneumonia, but died because of respiratory difficulties; and some neurological symptoms.
5. Cat rhinotracheitis, herpes virus package from the cat caused a highly contagious upper respiratory tract, the disease frequently occur in cats. Generally the main contact or airborne droplets, the main clinical symptoms are high fever, depression, coughing, sneezing, eyes, photophobia, conjunctivitis, and the cornea, tongue, mouth ulcers and other parts covered, so visible ocular fluid secretion structures and a significant increase in nasal secretions, secondary bacterial infection to discharge it into a thick mucus-like. Secretions contagious virus; pregnancy if the mother cat infected with the disease, the virus through the placenta and infect the fetus, causing miscarriage.
cat for more than five methods of prevention of infectious diseases: Cats are like people born within the first month of the original transmission of the most sensitive. Newborn kittens usually get from a cat's milk antibodies and be protected, the cat should be vaccinated before you go into production.
When the cat milk antibodies subsided, in order to continue and enhance immunity against the disease, should be close to 8 weeks of age, kittens imposed on a series of April until the age of vaccination, then the annual vaccination is to continue to prevent.
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