VERY DANGEROUS Virulent Calicivirus strain

[emily_the_spoiled]

The vet should report the side effect of the vaccine to the FDA and the company. When they do the testing for these drugs they only test on a small population of animals and not all side effects are observed. In alot of cases, new side effects are found once the product is released to the public. But the only way they find out is when people report back to them.

[phesina]

Thanks, everyone, for your replies.

Gary, I'm sorry to hear about the Burlington cats and those of the volunteers. (I'd figured this virus had probably made it to Canada too.) I hope they'll get any bugs worked out in that vaccine soon and it is much more highly publicized and put into use.

Momcat, and anyone else reading or hearing about this, by all means please do pass the word around, and if you find out anything more, please let us all know.

QueenScoopalot, I saw your post in Health and responded there. It looks like you and your kitties went through quite an ordeal. What a nightmare! I'm so glad you all made it.

Emily, thank you very much for the feedback that the vet that had the problems should report them to the FDA and the company. That is just what should be done. I will try and find out from the person who told me this if she knows if the vet did that. Or perhaps I will just call the vet herself.

Thanks again, everyone.

Pat

[kb2yjx]

Thanks Pat for the info. I will ask my vet about this.

[phesina]

Please let us know what your vet says, Sandra.. thanks..

I'm surprised I had never heard about this before, if it's been around since the late 1990s, is as contagious and deadly as they are saying, and until now there was no vaccine for it.

Pat

[Taz_Zoee]

I did not see this thread sooner and did a search on Calici to find it. I just took Taz to the vet last night for his vaccines and they told me about this. I had not heard of it. I missed this thread or I would have been more informed. I am glad Pat already got it out there (as did someone else sometime back, I think). It sounds very scary. Even though Taz is an indoor only cat, he could still get this nasty virus.

[catmandu]

The sad thing is that a friend of mine was going into that Burlington Store and adopt a Siamese Mix but she had car problems , and by that time the infected Kitten made all the 8 Ctas so ill that they had to be PTS.
I will have to be very vigilant around the Porch Cats from now on.

[phesina]

I did ask the person who told me about the vet who had the bad reactions of several cats to whom she'd given the new vaccine, if she had reported it to the company. I was told she did, of course, right away.

I haven't heard if she got a response from the company or if anything else has been learned or determined about it.

I still worry about this.

Pat