There is a special medicine that can cure “feline belly”, this medicine is called “GS-441524” (“441” for short).
Studies have shown that the cure rate of this drug for “feline belly” is as high as 80%.
But unfortunately, “441” can only be bought through the black market.
As for why it can only be bought on the black market, we have to start with the source of “441”.
Here has to mention one person – Niels Pedersen.
Pedersen is a feline infectious disease expert at the University of California, Davis. At the same time, he is also a cat lover like many shit shoveling officers. He has also devoted himself to the study of cats for many years.
“441” is what he spent decades researching.
In 1981, Dr. Pedersen linked “feline transmission” to a common feline coronavirus.
These coronaviruses that make cats sick are arguably so common that almost all felines are infected at least once in their lifetime, and reinfections are common.
But you don’t have to worry about it. Although this virus is common, “feline transmission” is not common.
Therefore, Dr. Pedersen believes that there must be other factors that cause cats to suffer from “feline transmission”.
To prove his idea, Dr. Pedersen must sacrifice many cats in the shelter and conduct more research.
During the research process, he also received a lot of hatred from cat lovers, and even received death threats, but he did not stop research because of this.
Dr. Pedersen believes that this research, at the expense of about 100 cats, will lead to a cure for “feline transmission” and save the lives of millions of sick cats.
There were many voices against it, but Dr. Pedersen eventually accumulated enough evidence to convince the opponents. In 1998, in the journal Virology, he published his mutation hypothesis, explaining how the common coronavirus became a cat-killer.
He found that the virus associated with FIP normally replicates in the cat’s gastrointestinal system, and cats with strong immune systems can fight off the virus. In rare cases, however, the virus mutates to infect macrophages, the immune cells that kill invading pathogens. If this happens, FIP will develop. The disease can cause fluid buildup in the cat’s abdomen, as well as neurological problems and blindness, before the cat eventually succumbs to the disease.