ANIMAL HEALTH Infectious Diseases Affecting Cats
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The most important infectious diseases affecting cats are feline panleukopenia, feline viral respiratory diseases, feline infectious peritonitis, and the feline leukemia virus disease complex. Other infectious diseases affect cats, but do not occur as frequently. Feline Panleukopenia also is variously termed feline infectious enteritis, or cat distemper. It is caused by a parvovirus (DNA virus). The virus infects cats of any age but is a disease principally of young cats, with worldwide distribution. Transmission of the virus
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