ABCD looks back to a successful year 2017, with new guidelines, new fact sheets and various updates for guidelines and fact sheets. The website “abcdcatsvets.org” provides currently 48 Guidelines in total, 3 of them are new ones, published in 2017: "Maternally derived immunity and vaccination", "Vaccination in immunosuppressed cats", and "Dirofilarioses". The knowledge about feline infectious diseases is developing quickly because of research activities. Also the epidemiological situations in Europe are changing. Therefore it is important and one of the goals of ABCD to keep Guidelines and Fact Sheets updated, so that the most actual information can be provided to European veterinarians. In 2017 for 13 Guidelines updates were published on the website. Currently 25 Fact Sheets are available on the website. They are designed as 2 pages-documents, offering a quick overview over the most important facts regarding a special infectious disease. An additional, new format was created in 2017: three “Tools” are dealing with problematic situations caused by infectious diseases. They offer a step-to-step programme for “Managing FCV outbreaks in multi-cat-communities”, “Managing feline panleukopenia outbreaks in shelters”, and an “FeLV diagnostic tool”. ABCD is also working on versions in various languages and was successful in adding new Fact Sheets in Italian and Polish languages. The ABCD Newsletters offer monthly information about new ABCD’s publications and other interesting facts regarding infectious diseases of the cat. It is worth to subscribe for this Newsletter and to use the information provided on the website. The ABCD wishes all the colleagues and followers of our activities a healthy and successful 2018!

Upon a joint initiative of veterinary clinicians, scientists and an industry sponsor, the Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD) has been constituted. Its objectives are to establish a rational base for vaccine use in the cat and to publish its conclusions for the companion animal practitioners’ scene. It it achieving this goal by organizing conventions, at which specific issues are scheduled, discussed and agreed upon. The objective is to define a code of practice that reflects the present state of vaccinological knowledge.

In 2005, the European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD) held its first meeting in Lyon, France. Its mission statement and aim specified to communicate scientific developments in feline infectious diseases and to establish a rational base for cat disease prevention and control.

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