It is important to note that once a cat is infected with feline immunodeficiency virus,
they become carriers of this disease for life.
In one study, 70 % of cows entering the hospital pen contracted M. bovis clinical mastitis within 12 days of entering the hospital pen.4 Hospital pen risk: Controlling disease from the herd During their stay in the hospital pen, fresh cows can
become carriers of disease.
Depending on the cat's age, the strength of their immune system and the strain of the virus, they may be able to fight the disease and recover from these early signs and
become carriers of the disease.
Not exact matches
In 1 in 10 cases, people infected with these germs spread the
disease to apparently healthy people in the hospital — such as patients, doctors or nurses — who in turn can act as silent
carriers of illness, infecting others even if they don't
become sick.
Cats infected with feline herpes virus (FHV)
become life - long
carriers of the
disease, but are only infectious intermittently.
Cats that have had the
disease and have recovered from it will sometimes
become carriers of feline herpes virus.
But stressed cats with over-taxed immune systems malnutrition and the high virus exposure
of group - living sometimes
become much sicker with the
disease and are more likely to
become chronic
carriers of the virus once the initial infection passes.
However, when a genetic
disease gains a foothold in a breed, the
carrier prevalence can
become quite high, and the
disease is in no way rare for that breed
of dog.
About 30 %
become «latent
carriers»
of the
disease, neither fully recovered nor seriously affected.
Doxycycline is probably the best since it seems most effective in preventing dogs from
becoming silent
carriers of the
disease organism in their kidneys after recovery (ref)
Recently, it has
become possible to identify presymptomatic dogs or
carriers for a small number
of inherited
diseases in a few breeds using molecular genetic tests.
But some
of those animals go on to
become silent
carriers that spread the
disease to others.
Vaccination will reduce the severity
of disease but will not prevent infected dogs from
becoming carriers.