Dr Diane D. Addie is an independent veterinary virologist who has a special interest in infectious diseases of the cat. Her goals are to eradicate feline coronavirus, the cause of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), and to find a cure for chronic feline gingivostomatitis (FCGS). Her dream is to see an end of all animal suffering, especially an end of factory farming which, along with war, are huge sources of avoidable animal suffering.

She was a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Diagnostic Veterinary Virology laboratory at the University of Glasgow Veterinary School until 2006. She is author of the website www.catvirus.com which aims to provide veterinary surgeons with information which is difficult to source elsewhere, especially on FIP and FCGS. She is author of many papers published in refereed veterinary and scientific journals, and has written chapters for veterinary textbooks.

Diane D. Addie has been a member of the European Advisory Board of Cat Disease since its inception in 2005. She served on the council of Cats Protection for 20 years and is now a patron of the Celia Hammond Animal Trust.

All her research has been on naturally infected animals and she thanks all the veterinary surgeons and cat guardians who sent samples from their pets to make that possible. In 2003 she received the Amoroso award for outstanding contributions to small animal studies by a non-clinical member of university staff.

Her FCoV/FIP and FCGS website is www.catvirus.com and her YouTube channel is www.youtube.com/user/DrDianeDAddie. For tackling subjects that YouTube would likely censor she also posts videos to Bitchute ( www.bitchute.com/channel/ZEk9qdH9iDzm/), Odysee (https://odysee.com/@Catvirus ); Brighteon ( https://www.brighteon.com/ffd6bc5a-8013-4ac5-bb01-5fe86c98abc9), and she was posting videos to Rumble until it was banned in France. Her X (formerly Twitter) handle is @FIPvet.