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Hi! I’m Dr. Adrienne Mulligan and I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic and
I am here on behalf of Expert Village.com to talk to you today about caring for kittens.
The last little virus that I want to talk about is a long word. It’s called Feline
Viral Rhinotracheitis Virus. It is actually a *** virus. It is in the family of the
*** viruses that make everything in people from cold sores to shingles to chicken pox
to genital *** but none of them are contagious to people or to other animals. It is just
a cat *** virus. But because of the *** virus, they get it from their mother generally
and they keep it all their life. It hides in their nerves and they have little outbreaks
as they get older. When they are little, they will be very sick with it but I am sure you
have seen little kittens with a yellow discharge in their eyes and nose and they can’t breathe
and then they are very sick little kittens. You have to nurse them through that part but
later they get older and they don’t have as much of a problem with it because their
immune system takes care of it for the most part and then they might just have occasional
small outbreaks just like sneezing or eye problems. That is something that many people
will mistake for allergies and things like that but it is actually just a viral outbreak
like having a cold sore outbreak. Not usually deadly but it runs its course and then it’s
gone.