FelinePanleukopenia

Diagnosis

If you suspect your cat may be infected, take your cat to the veterinarian.  He or she will examine your cat to confirm your cat's disease status.  Feline Panleukopenia often has similar symptoms to these diseases listed and therefore must be differentiated from them.

- Feline Leukemia Virus

- Feline Immunodeficiency Virus

- Salmonella

- Campylobacter

- Pancreatitis

 

Treatment

There is no cure for Feline Panleukopenia.  Your veterinarian will provide supportive care, such as fluid therapy, to help your cat get through the worst of the symptoms.  Even with supportive care, many cases are still fatal.

 

Preventing further spread

Cats infected with Feline Panleukopenia are very contagious and shed the virus in the urine, stool, and nasal secretions.  Infected cats should be isolated immediately.

 

The virus causing Feline Panleukopenia is very resistant and can survive for up to a year outside of the cat.  Everything an infected cat has come into contact with, including food bowls, brushes, and crates, must be disinfected.  The virus is very hardy so a 6% solution of household bleach left for ten minutes is the most effective way to disinfect.