A cure for feline infectious peritonitis – FIP – has recently been found, but currently (2019) there is no veterinary preparation available. It costs thousands to treat a single cat, and the cat has to endure 12 weeks of painful injections which can cause weeping sores on the skin.
My aim is to eradicate feline coronavirus, the virus that causes FIP.
- SUMMARY OF KEY MESSAGES -
1. THE SINGLE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO PREVENT FIP IS TO PREVENT A KITTEN OR CAT FROM EVER BECOMING INFECTED WITH FELINE CORONAVIRUS (FCOV), THE VIRUS WHICH CAUSES FIP.
2. The virus is shed in the faeces. Cats become infected with FCoV by sharing a litter tray with an infected cat, or via contaminated cat litter dust particles.
3. There is no need to invent an anti-viral cat litter: cat litters which inhibit FCoV already exist.
4. Dr Elsey Cat Attract was the best cat litter for reducing FCoV transmission and EverClean Clumping was also good.
5. Unfortunately, even the best cat litter cannot wholly prevent FCoV transmission, but it can reduce virus load in a household or shelter.
6. The best way to prevent FCoV infection is still to allow cats outdoors to toilet.

- MY RANKING OF CAT LITTERS -
1. Dr Elsey’s Cat Attract™ www.drelseys.com/shop/cat-attract
2. Ever Clean® Clumping www.everclean.com
3. World’s Best Original (but not Extra) www.worldsbestcatlitter.com
- DONATE -
Many thanks to donors who support the making of these videos. If you’d like to help feed me and my cats and keep this channel going please donate at paypal.me/Catvirus or become a catvirus.com subscriber: www.catvirus.com/#subscribe.
- CONSULTATION WITH ME -
To arrange an online consultation with me for diagnosis / treatment of your cat: www.catvirus.com/#contact on the catvirus.com homepage.
- BOOKS -
1. “FIP and Coronavirus” a book for cat guardians available from Amazon:
English version (2nd edition):
UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1070597422
USA: www.amazon.com/dp/1070597422
France: www.amazon.fr/dp/1070597422
Spanish version (1st edition): www.amazon.com/peritonitis-infecciosa-felina-PIF-coronavirus-ebook/dp/B01MT1DTU2/
Italian: coming soon
2. “Protein Rich Soup” - get healthy - eat more vegetables - find my vegan recipes in this book: [ Ссылка ]
- LINKS -
1. My FIP website: www.catvirus.com
2. Video of cat becoming infected with FCoV:
English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkqUjeQNEQs
French
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrnopBFAr8A&feature=plcp
3. Link to Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery cat litter study paper: [ Ссылка ]
4. Catvirus Bitchute channel: [ Ссылка ]
5. D Tube channel: [ Ссылка ]
6. Blogs can be found on Steemit: [ Ссылка ]
7. Twitter @FIPvet - [ Ссылка ]
8. Facebook: www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000644732948
9. To send samples to the University of Glasgow Veterinary Diagnostic Services in the UK (receives samples from all over the world): www.gla.ac.uk/schools/vet/cad

- REFERENCE -
Addie D, Houe L, Maitland K, Passantino G, Decaro N. Effect of cat litters on feline coronavirus infection of cell culture and cats. J Feline Med Surg. 2019 May 16:1098612X19848167.

- HUGE THANKS -
I am immensely grateful to my co-authors on this study: Kirsty Maitland did the in vitro cell culture work. Huge thanks to Lene Houe of the Felismir Katteklinik in Denmark who took all the rectal swabs – sometimes as many as 50 in a month! I am very grateful to the guardians of the households for persevering with testing their cats. I thank Prof. Nicola Decaro at the University of Bari who quantified the virus on rectal swabs.
I am thankful to Matt Golder for help with the in vitro study and to the late Prof. Marian Horzinek for extremely useful discussions on this project. I also want to sincerely thank an anonymous reviewer of the JFMS paper, who was absolutely wonderful in fine tuning the paper, and checking the numbers.
Huge thanks to donors to the Angelica Fund (www.catvirus.com) and Orion Foundation for funding my research. Much gratitude to Michael Riley (Better By Nature); Kruuse (Denmark) and Gina Zaro of Dr Elsey Cat Litter for funding FCoV RT-q PCR testing and supplying some of the cat litter for the in vivo part of this study. I thank Roger Coleman (MPM products) and Alan O’Dell (Cat Country) for supplying some of the cat litters used in the in vitro study. I am grateful to Pfizer for funding the salary of Kirsty Maitland. I thank Maria Bonino for funding testing of two households which used World’s Best Litter that could not be used in the study (due to lack of virus transmission), via a donation in memory of her beloved cat, Luca, who died of FIP.
None of the sources of funding had any input into the design of this study, the writing of the JFMS paper, nor the making of this video.

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