<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;}</style></head><body><div>I have only had FELV cats but never washed my hands after handling them. I treated all the same and have had no experience of the disease spreading to others. I have had up to 10 at a time as all who came to my house became part of my "pride". As they came to me, I took them to the vet for a checkup, spay or neuter and they became mine.</div><div><br></div><div>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Lorraine Johnston <johnston1110@comcast.net><br>To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org<br>Sent: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:10:16 -0500 (EST)<br>Subject: [Felvtalk] Cleaning? Retesting?<br></div><div><br></div><style><!--<br><div><br></div>@font-face<br> {font-family:"Cambria Math";<br> panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}<br>@font-face<br> {font-family:Calibri;<br> panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}<br><div><br></div>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal<br> {margin:0in;<br> margin-bottom:.0001pt;<br> font-size:11.0pt;<br> font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}<br>a:link, span.MsoHyperlink<br> {mso-style-priority:99;<br> color:blue;<br> text-decoration:underline;}<br>a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed<br> {mso-style-priority:99;<br> color:purple;<br> text-decoration:underline;}<br>span.EmailStyle17<br> {mso-style-type:personal-compose;<br> font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";<br> color:windowtext;}<br>.MsoChpDefault<br> {mso-style-type:export-only;}<br>@page WordSection1<br> {size:8.5in 11.0in;<br> margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}<br>div.WordSection1<br> {page:WordSection1;}<br>--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hello again,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">For those of you who have both FELV+ and - cats, how strenuous are your cleaning efforts? For instance, do you wash hands after just petting? Do you have your negative cats retested every year?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">- Lorraine</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">"S</span><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">ometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine." - Alan Turing </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><br></div></body></html>