FVR causes depression, anorexia, fever and nasal and ocular discharge. Eye lesions are common. Treatment is usually supportive and includes antibiotics to prevent secondary bacterial infection. It causes many of the same symptoms without eye lesions and with the addition of oral ulceration. Treatment with antibiotics helps prevent secondary bacterial infections.
Supportive care is also often necessary.
It also causes eye infections. FeLV is spread from cat to cat by grooming, sharing feed and water dishes and sharing litter boxes. Symptoms of FeLV are variable and may include repeated infection, loss of appetite, weight loss, coughing, anemia and many others. There is no effective treatment for FeLV at this time. Cats should be blood tested for FeLV before their first FeLV vaccination.