WOW.. Wonderful news For CATS
I have lost 9 cats since I moved to Missouri. I was heartsick when I finally found out what was killing them...cytauxzoonosis, or “bobcat TICK fever. What the heck is that you may ask. It is a sickness that was discovered in 1967 in Missouri. It consists of a disease carried by ticks who have bitten a Bobcat then bites a domestic cat. Death rate was 99.99 % in Missouri and nothing less then 90% in all other states it has been found in.
I had decided not to allow another cat into my life, it hurts when they die and it is a horrible death. The vital organs inside the cat die off causing a painful death.
One night at about 3 am I heard this soft kitten cry out side of my RV.. Crap, another kitten has been dropped off out here on our country road. that was about 4 years ago. I did not get her fixed in time and had two different litter of kittens one of the kittens had a litter, and now I have ten cats. but when you take kittens to a city run animal shelter .. something like 80% are put to sleep instead of being adopted so.. I couldn't take them to a shelter. What could I do to protect my cats? It seemed simple but with ten cats if you keep them inside there would be a horrible smell even if the litter boxes were emptied every day.. (In the course of all this I got a rent to own storage building converted it into a home.) The answer was simple let the cats be outside.. but what about the BOBCAT FEVER?
I built a CAT RUN...
I use tick dust all over my yard so that none can get inside the pen. and the cats access it via an open window in my kitchen.
BUT BACK TO THE WONDERFUL NEWS:
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Leah Cohn is a professor of small animal internal
medicine in the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine.
As Deadly Cat Disease Spreads Nationally, MU Veterinarian Finds Effective TreatmentCat owners should keep cats indoors, use tick preventatives to reduce chance of disease
April 17, 2012
Story Contact(s):
Nathan Hurst, hurstn@missouri.edu, 573-882-6217
COLUMBIA, Mo. —Lone Star ticks, which are notorious
carriers of many diseases including cytauxzoonosis, or “bobcat fever,”
have been spreading across the nation in recent years. As a result, cats
across much of the country are now exposed to the deadly disease.
University of Missouri veterinarian Leah Cohn, a small animal disease
expert, and Adam Birkenheuer from North Carolina State University, have
found an effective treatment for the dangerous disease.Nathan Hurst, hurstn@missouri.edu, 573-882-6217
“Previous treatment methods have only been able to save less than 25 percent of infected cats, but our method, which is now being used by veterinarians across the country, has been shown to save about 60 percent of infected cats,” Cohn said. “While that number isn’t as high as we’d like due to the deadly nature of the disease, our method is the first truly effective way to combat the disease.”
PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE:
http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2012/0417-as-deadly-cat-disease-spreads-nationally-mu-veterinarian-finds-effective-treatment/
EVEN ONE STEP CLOSER TO A FULL CURE IS WONDERFUL NEWS
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