We have recently been battling with the re-emergence of a virus we thought was long ago controlled. One of our charity shelter clients has suffered an outbreak of Feline Infectious Enteritis, otherwise known as Feline Parvovirus. This is a virus we have vaccinated against for years and which I haven't seen since the early eighties when I was a young vet still wet behind the ears.

    It causes severe enteritis which shows as diarrhoea and vomiting, and in young or weak animals it can be fatal. Unfortunately in the recent outbreak we did lose two kittens, but once we realised what we were dealing with the shelter took heroic measures to limit the spread of the virus and brought the outbreak rapidly under control.