Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.pets Subject: Re: Feline Leukemia Message-ID: <23000009@convexs> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 09:46:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.23000009 Posted: Wed Aug 21 09:46:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:50:11 EDT References: <58100014@trsvax> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:trsvax:58100014:convexs:23000009:000:854 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Aug 21 08:46:00 1985 /* Written 4:03 pm Aug 13, 1985 by kasey@trsvax in convexs:net.pets */ /* ---------- "Feline Leukemia" ---------- */ I took my 2 3-year-old cats to the vet this morning for their annual shots. ...I thought I would clear up some miscopnceptions of the disease that were pertepuated in this newsgroup about 6 months ago. ...and it is always fatal. /* End of text from convexs:net.pets */ One of the reasons there are so many "miscopnceptions" about things of this nature is that so many people claim to have the "right and only" TRUE answer. According to my vet (and a handout from the manufacturers of the vaccine), about two-thirds of the cats that get FL die -- the rest become carriers. So who's right? I don't know, but the odds are against you either way. May your karma diminish and you free from the wheel... blues, II