{"id":11235,"date":"2026-01-14T19:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T01:10:18","slug":"cat-disease-challenges-what-scientists-thought-about-coronaviruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/01\/14\/cat-disease-challenges-what-scientists-thought-about-coronaviruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Disease Challenges What Scientists Thought About Coronaviruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/health\/news\/cat-disease-challenges-what-scientists-thought-about-coronaviruses\">UC Davis <\/a> Study Finds Viruses May Hide and Persist in Immune Cells. esearchers at the University of California, Davis, have uncovered new details about how a once-deadly coronavirus disease in cats spreads through the immune system. The findings may help scientists better understand long COVID and other long-lasting inflammatory illnesses in people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disease, feline infectious peritonitis, or FIP, is caused by a form of feline coronavirus that changes inside some cats. If left untreated, it is almost always fatal. While FIP only affects cats, it shares many features with serious coronavirus-related conditions in humans, including severe inflammation that can damage multiple organs, as well as symptoms that can persist or return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A broader attack on the immune system<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, the prevailing belief was that the virus behind FIP infected just one type of immune cell.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we found is that it actually infects a much broader range of immune cells, including those that are critical for fighting infection,\u201d said lead author Amir Kol, associate professor with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0378113525005000?via%3Dihub#sec0060\">study<\/a>&nbsp;was published in the journal Veterinary Microbiology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Davis Study Finds Viruses May Hide and Persist in Immune Cells. esearchers at the University of California, Davis, have uncovered new details about how a once-deadly coronavirus disease in cats spreads through the immune system. The findings may help scientists better understand long COVID and other long-lasting inflammatory illnesses in people. The disease, feline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11236,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions\/11236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}