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Only cats (kittens) less than a year old can transmit the disease. We were given the kitten and it was an outside cat to start off with. We took her to the vet and had her dipped and shots, etc.
Apparently she already had the disease (it comes from a flea bite and becomes transmittable) when my daughter was playing with it, it scratched her around her neck area. That is why those lymph nodes began to swell.
The lymph nodes looked awful. Big knots the size of a ping pong ball and a deep bluish purple and you could see the veins. Very angry looking knots.
The dr. decided to let them rupture on their own since manually draining them could take a year to a year and a half to completely stop draining. Once they ruptured they sealed up on their own and quit draining. She has since had a very low immune system tolerance and she takes vitamin C to boost it.
It was quite an ordeal. In fact the dr. was a teacher at the medical school and used her as a case study for his classes since she had such a strong case of it. They determined the strength of the disease by diluting her blood like 1:1, 1:2. 1:4. 1:8. etc until it reached something like 1:1028 or something like that. He said it was the strongest case he had ever seen.
She is over it now but it was quite stressful at the time. We travelled to the dr office 80 miles each way, 3 days a week for like 10 months so he could monitor her. It took about 2 years before he cut her loose.
Apparently she already had the disease (it comes from a flea bite and becomes transmittable) when my daughter was playing with it, it scratched her around her neck area. That is why those lymph nodes began to swell.
The lymph nodes looked awful. Big knots the size of a ping pong ball and a deep bluish purple and you could see the veins. Very angry looking knots.
The dr. decided to let them rupture on their own since manually draining them could take a year to a year and a half to completely stop draining. Once they ruptured they sealed up on their own and quit draining. She has since had a very low immune system tolerance and she takes vitamin C to boost it.
It was quite an ordeal. In fact the dr. was a teacher at the medical school and used her as a case study for his classes since she had such a strong case of it. They determined the strength of the disease by diluting her blood like 1:1, 1:2. 1:4. 1:8. etc until it reached something like 1:1028 or something like that. He said it was the strongest case he had ever seen.
She is over it now but it was quite stressful at the time. We travelled to the dr office 80 miles each way, 3 days a week for like 10 months so he could monitor her. It took about 2 years before he cut her loose.
