Fip In Cats How Do They Get It. Two types of disease exist, although there can be a crossover between the two: There are no unique signs of fip and they do vary.
I have had it happen with one of my cats when she was young. Fip may be more common in certain breeds and breeding lines, such. Although fip is not a particularly common disease, it is important because once a cat develops the disease, the outcome is almost invariably fatal.
The letters 'fip' stand for feline infectious peritonitis.
While shedding, the virus is contagious but treatable and relatively easy to control, however once the virus mutates and becomes fip, it attacks the white blood cells, which then carry the disease throughout the body causing havoc. It occurs worldwide in cats of all ages, but the disease is most common in young cats less than two years of age. Even house cats can develop fip, either because they came in contact with it from their mother as a kitten, or sometimes from another indoor cat that never develops symptoms. To a certain degree most cats will carry this nasty virus because they will have come into contact with it at some point in their lives.
