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How do cats get infected with feline distemper virus?

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The causative agent of cat plague is parvovirus, which is mainly transmitted through contact. The main ways for healthy cats to be infected with feline distemper virus are: healthy cats and sick cats play together, lick each other's fur, share a cat food bowl, share a bowl of water, eat the same food together or share a cat litter box, etc.

 How do cats become infected with feline distemper virus?

In all the above situations, healthy cats will infect cats during contact with sick cats. Pestivirus. In addition, feline distemper virus can also be transmitted through maternal-fetal infection and excrement spread. For example, if a pregnant cat carries the feline distemper virus, the kittens will also carry the feline distemper virus.

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