Fip In Cats Contagious To Other Cats. While fip is not contagious there does seem to be a genetic component to which cats are more prone to the mutation which is why we sometimes see it in cats related to each other. Chylothorax is more common in cats than dogs.

Thanks to a lifetime of dedication and devotion, dr niels pedersen of uc davis discovered the cure for fip: Treating your yard for fleas and ticks. Rather, fip develops in individual cats after they are infected with fecv and the virus undergoes mutations to become fipv (fipv itself is not passed in the feces).

All cats should be tested for fiv, and retested any time they’re sick with infection, adopted into a new home, or exposed to other infected cats.

Some cats can have the corona virus their whole lives and it will never mutate into fip, others are not that lucky. A contagious disease is spread from animal to animal or person to person. Chylothorax is more common in cats than dogs. Fcov is very contagious, and your other cats will already have been infected.