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The Second Chance Fund also provides other at-cost services including rabies vaccinations, distemper shots, flea treatments and testing for feline immune virus and
feline leukemia virus.
Irrefutable evidence does confirm that the nonhuman retroviruses avian leukosis virus (ALV), bovine leukemia virus (BLV),
feline leukemia virus (FeLV), and murine leukemia virus (MuLV) induce lymphoproliferative disease in birds, cattle, cats, and mice, respectively; all are usually associated with T-cell leukemias.
Aquila's products include: Leucogen for protection against
feline leukemia virus (approved for United States and European use in 1991); Quilvax MTM, an aid in the control of bovine mastitis; and Quilimmune MTM, a human healthcare product for preventing malaria.
Cats are also suspected of spreading
feline leukemia virus to a mountain lion in California and infecting the endangered Florida panther with feline distemper.
Many owners also innoculate their pets annually against the
feline leukemia virus.
It is inexplicable that these writers do not recognize that a chimp's failure to contract AIDS from HIV no more addresses the consequences of HIV infection in humans than does the human failure to contract
feline leukemia virus indicate that cats cannot contract leukemia either.
A recent study of a specific
feline leukemia virus, which also causes fatal feline immunodeficiency syndrome, led scientists to conclude that current laboratory procedures may not be isolating the more virulent strains of HIV, thus misleading researchers (SN: 2/27/88, p.133).
Feline leukemia virus (FeLV) is a common pathogenic infectious disease responsible for high mortality rates for domestic cats, particularly before development of effective vaccines in the 1980s (1).
Your veterinarian will do a full exam and can test for contagious diseases such as
feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus.