Herpes in Cat's Eye Question

Doesn't everyone who had chickenpox have scars?

Nope. I had chickenpox as a kid and have no scars from it. And to confirm
that I really did have chickenpox, I had a wonderful bout with shingles a
couple years ago

Dan

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Don't have sex with your cat - it's not fair on him.

Bob

Great another one



Sounds like good advice to me. g

jw

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How contagious is herpes in a cat's eye? What degree of contact would
it
take to pass this from one cat to another? Is this virus the same as or
related to the human herpes virus (or the Epstein-Barr virus*)? Is it
possible to transfer this from cat to human or human to cat?

1. Very. Most cats carry, some are affected, some are not.
2. Very little. Secretions would do it.
3. No.
4. No.



Hmmm. Out of 25 all inside cats, one of ours has (had) herpes outbreak in
only one eye. We did not quarantine her but administered a vet approved
ointment and L-Lysine daily for about a month--dosage prescribed by the vet.
You can buy the L-Lysine OTC, but there is some question as to the amount
that should be administered.

None of the other cats acquired the disease, and when her eye cleared to the
point where she no longer squinted or showed a red rim, we stopped the
L-Lysine. It's been 15 months and no reacquisition.

--Catmandu

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It's been 15 months and no reacquisition.

No recrudescence. No such thing as reaquisition. Herpes is like diamonds-
both are forever.

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It's been 15 months and no reacquisition.

No recrudescence. No such thing as reaquisition. Herpes is like
diamonds-
both are forever.


Whatever

--Catmandu

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Whatever

--Catmandu


Thanks for being so positive. It's fine people such as yourself who make
taking the time after working a seventy hour week to stop in here and try to
pass on some information worth it. Please be careful tomorrow and don't
step in front of a bus or anything.

In rec.pets.cats.anecdotes Mr Tibbs wrote:

most pox will leave a scar, i have two little spots on my stomach
you can't hardly see them from the fur, but i know they are there
from pox.

Fur?

Joyce

We have 5 cats. One cat had his original outbreak 5 years ago in his
eye at a time when we were living in a small 2 bedroom apartment, in
other words, tight quarters. None of the others cats ever received the
herpes. Now living in a much larger house, and another outbreak in the
same cat 2 years ago, again none of the other cats were ever infected.