RE: bone marrow test

[Hideyo Yamamoto]

Most of my cats were never been at a shelter, I trapped them directly from each colony, and I have been taking care of them for the past few years  – I sort of know which colony has which virus – as you do see a sort of pattern, but I guess I will not know for sure of anything –     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of catatonya Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 3:20 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: RE: bone marrow test   But.....how do you know that none of your other cats is already carrying it in their bone marrow?  If a cat has been in a shelter, been in the wild, been in a home with many cats..... chances are it has at sometime been exposed......   t Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well – I am not sure if I am really going to pursuit or not  – but if I catch Ginger’s mama, I think I want to try to keep her in stead of releasing her (she is a feral kitty) – she looks really good, but if she tested negative on FeLV, I feel that I need to know if she is really negative as I may have to consider the possibility of keeping her with other negative kitties – but I know that kitties can be negative on blood test, but positive on bone marrow (it happened to one of my friend’s kitty) -   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cherie A Gabbert Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:37 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: RE: bone marrow test   Who would you want to get that done on? Your positive kitty or negative? Cherie Hideyo Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   Does anyone know how invasive it is to do bone marrow level testing on FeLV?