Feline Immunodeficiency Virus is a retrovirus. Just like human AIDS, it will cause the cat's immune system to be imperfect and make it susceptible to other diseases.

【Symptoms】

Most infections with this disease have no obvious clinical symptoms. The main harm is that the immune system is suppressed for a long time. Therefore, sick cats are easily infected with some diseases that are not easy to occur in healthy cats, such as: toxoplasmosis, feline infectious anemia, Carisse virus and more. Sick cats commonly suffer from reduced white blood cell count, fever, gum and oral infections, swollen lymph nodes, anemia and other complex infections.

【Pathogen and Transmission】

In addition to appearing in blood and bone marrow fluid, Feline Immunodeficiency Virus exists in large amounts in saliva. Therefore, the main route of infection is infection through bites. In a few cases, it is vertically transmitted to the fetus through the placenta. Unlike human AIDS, it is not spread through sexual intercourse.

【Prevention and Treatment】

About 1/3 of cats carry this virus, so the best way is not to let cats go out freely. Before adopting a new cat (especially a stray cat), you must isolate it and conduct a blood test to make sure it is disease-free before bringing it home to raise. , to avoid infecting other healthy cats. Once the blood test result is positive, in addition to isolation and feeding, careful care, antibiotics, vitamin supplements and the prevention of other diseases are even more important.