Right now there’s no known cure for it and there’s not even a simple diagnostic test for it. Feline infectious peritonitis, FIP for short, is a progressive viral disease that, unfortunately, is almost always fatal.
Oh, it starts out innocently enough. It’s caused by certain strains of the feline coronavirus, most of which don’t even cause disease or, if they do, may cause fairly mild intestinal or respiratory symptoms.
But sometimes, at some point, either the virus mutates or the cat’s immune system malfunctions and the disease develops into FIP. Read more…