What is the Cornell Feline Health Center doing to fight FIP?
We have worked diligently for over 20 years to develop an effective vaccine as well as diagnostic tests that will be more useful in diagnosing FIP in sick cats and in identifying the FIP-virus-carrier state in healthy cats. We are also studying the disease process itself (i.e., how the virus replicates in the cat, and why the cells normally responsible for protection against infection do not destroy the virus). That work may lead to more-effective treatments for FIP. Prepared by the Cornell Feline Health Center, Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, New York 14853-6401. The ultimate purpose of the Feline Health Center is to improve the health of cats by developing methods to prevent or cure feline diseases and by providing continuing education to veterinarians and cat owners. Much of that work is made possible by the financial support of friends. 1997 by Cornell University.
