"FIV is not, nor should it be a death sentence for cats," says veterinarian Danya Linehan. "We in the veterinary and animal rescue communities have finally evolved past the point of recommending ...

Animal Rescue: Cats with FIV can live long, ... The answers are no and no. Feline Immunodeficiency Virus is a cat-only disease and cannot be spread to humans or other animals.

Bonnie Rosen of Melville has been involved in animal rescue for several years, helping FIV-positive cats find their forever homes. “I adopted my first FIV-positive cat from the Town of Hempstead ...

Animal Files: Protecting your cats from FIV and FeLV. Shelby Springer. Feline Leukemia Virus, or FeLV, causes cancer in cats; Feline Immunodeficiency Virus, ...

The first vaccine for feline immunodeficiency virus was approved for commercial production and veterinary use today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The patented vaccine for this disease, which ...

So far, Dr Poeschla's team has only tested cells taken from the animals and found they were resistant to FIV. But eventually they plan to expose the cats to the virus and see if they are protected.

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The red tabby, with a white bib and matching white mittens, tested positive for feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) when he first arrived at the The Helen O. Krause Animal Foundation, Inc. animal ...

A local animal rescue is raising awareness about a virus that may be scaring people away from adopting some of their ... They are all FIV positive which stands for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus.

The researchers still have more work to do to determine whether the anti-FIV gene works in the cats. “We haven’t shown cats that are AIDS-proof,” study co-author Eric Poeschla told LiveScience .