Earlier this year, our ability to treat feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) in Canada was revolutionized through legal access to imported GS-441524. I don’t use “revolutionized” lightly. This drug has changed FIP from an almost invariably fatal disease to one with a 90+% cure rate in cats.
People have (illegally) imported black market versions of
Following up on a recent post regarding evidence for shortened duration of treatment in select cases of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), we have a new WormsAndGermsPod quick-bite on FIP treatment duration.
This short 14-minute podcast covers:
Warning: long post. TL;DR? We can drop the antiviral treatment duration for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) to 42 days in many situations.
In veterinary medicine, a lot of our recommended durations for treatment for different diseases have little scientific backing. We “inherited” a lot of these treatment regimens from the days when the drugs
The UK’s FIP Advice Team has released new antiviral drug treatment guidelines for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP).
A major change is introduction of twice daily dosing of oral GS-441524, based on the observation that inter-cat variations in drug absorption and metabolism might account for some of the treatment failures that are seen with once daily
Now that Canadian veterinarians can legally import antiviral drugs for treatment of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), there’s no (good) reason for people in Canada to be sourcing these drugs on the black market. However, there are still many countries (e.g. the US) where it’s still tough or impossible to get these drugs legally, so
Great news for Canadian veterinarians, cat owners and cats: We now have legal access to drugs that can treat feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a disease that’s historically been considered almost invariably fatal in cats, prior to the discovery of these very treatments.
I’ll keep this short (-ish… since Moe keeps complaining about my long posts).
Back in August, I wrote about a high-profile but poorly described “outbreak” of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) in cats in Cyprus. Now, a preprint publication (Attipa et al. 2023) has come out with some interesting information, but lots of questions still remain. That’s the nature of emerging diseases – a single report
I’ve held off writing about this unusual outbreak of cat deaths on the island of Cyprus for a few reasons, a big one being a lack of clear information, but the situation has drawn a lot of attention.
In general, when we have reports of strange disease events, there are a few scenarios to consider:
