[braingenious]

Thanks for sharing! I am so glad your cat is alive and healthy!

I haven’t heard about Mutian or oral GS, I will look into that further. As for Facebook groups, in my initial search I also found a bunch of Facebook groups. I pointed him at a couple “FIP Warriors” private groups, but I don’t have facebook myself and can’t verify that they’re legit.

Ideally, I’d just like to link him to a legitimate source to buy from because the poor guy is understandably freaking out. The unclear writing about the legality of this stuff (which I would REALLY like to nail down) might preclude somebody posting that information publicly though.

Luckily he is a physician so hopefully that will make giving his cat injections a bit easier, though I don’t think they teach you how to give a 6 month old kitten a subcutaneous shot in medical school!

[davidmargolin]

AFAICT it's not legal. There was a single (successful!) study done but the drug was never put up for approval as a veterinary medicine. I believe they were looking to use it for humans and it got stuck in limbo there.

That said, many vets will still source and administer it. Our vet (not the initial emergency vet mentioned above) was very supportive.

This is a really good article covering the details: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/remdesiv...