A few cats were infected with the highly specific feline panleukopenia virus, which reduced the cat population to about 600 by 1982.

Feline panleukopenia virus a virus affecting cats, minks and ferrets.

For example on Marion Island cats were infected with the feline panleukopenia virus, which drastically reduced their population within six years.

Feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), more commonly known as feline distemper, is caused by the feline parvovirus, a close relative of canine parvovirus.

Feline panleukopenia virus (FPV), also known as Feline infectious enteritis, Feline distemper, feline ataxia, or cat plague, is a viral infection affecting cats, both domesticated and wild feline species.

Analyses of feline parvovirus (FPV) isolates in Vietnam and Taiwan revealed that more than 80% of the isolates were of the canine parvovirus type, rather than feline panleukopenia virus (FPLV).