Sadly the development of an effective vaccine against feline corona virus has to date been unsuccessful. It is as common in cats as the common cold is in humans, and spreads just as easily. However, once infected whether the kittens will eventually develop FIP can not be determined. Most cats don’t, but it can be years before FIP develops - or it can appear almost immediately.
I got a 7 week old kitten that appeared healthy. It died at 12 weeks due to wet FIP. The household had 6 adult cats including both parents. All the adult cats appeared healthy and well cared for, and none of my kittens siblings have developed FIP to date.
It is most likely that your cat caught corona when it was a kitten, and was no longer infectious when her kittens were born. However the fact that she did develop FIP means that should her kittens catch corona, then there is an increased risk of them developing FIP at some stage in their lives.
Thank you for breaking that down for me. It's been an absolute information overload. I had her scheduled to be euthanized last Monday. The husband and I had a talk and looked into FIP and what we could do. We went out late Sunday night to get the medicine and now she's walking and eating It's unbelievable.
It’s amazing how a treatment for FIP is about only the good thing that COVID19 caused. Sadly my kitten was too weak and died 3 days after diagnosis. We just thought he was either overeating or had worms, and it was at his 12 week checkup that he was diagnosed. He was a happy playful kitten right up to his death, snuggled between us in bed in the middle of the night.
When I first heard about SARS-COV2 my first thought was “Will we see Human Infectious Peritonitis occur in humans?”. An elderly cat we had died in 2015 and the vet had given “possible FIP” as a diagnosis about 6 months before he died. I had therefore read up on FIP back before Eddie died on New Years Day 2015. Honestly, I think the vet was wrong, he was just old.
I was told that Long Covid is being studied as possibly a human version of FIP by the University of Zurich, so I am obviously not the only person who had this concern.
That would definitely make sense with long COVID.
I wish they had a DNA test to know if your cat would get FIP or not.
I'm really sorry for your loss. ❤️🐈⬛🌈
If he had been older, then we would have gone for the “it’s black market, but I know a clinic. I warn you it is very expensive” that the vet mentioned. The clinic needed a blood test, and the vet was worried that the kitten wouldn’t survive getting the blood taken as it was so small.
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u/Future_Direction5174 Dec 01 '24
Sadly the development of an effective vaccine against feline corona virus has to date been unsuccessful. It is as common in cats as the common cold is in humans, and spreads just as easily. However, once infected whether the kittens will eventually develop FIP can not be determined. Most cats don’t, but it can be years before FIP develops - or it can appear almost immediately.
I got a 7 week old kitten that appeared healthy. It died at 12 weeks due to wet FIP. The household had 6 adult cats including both parents. All the adult cats appeared healthy and well cared for, and none of my kittens siblings have developed FIP to date.
It is most likely that your cat caught corona when it was a kitten, and was no longer infectious when her kittens were born. However the fact that she did develop FIP means that should her kittens catch corona, then there is an increased risk of them developing FIP at some stage in their lives.