Distemper Virus

Distemper Virus. Canine distemper is a contagious and serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the respiratory gastrointestinal and nervous systems of puppies and dogs The virus can also be found in wildlife such as foxes wolves coyotes raccoons skunks mink and ferrets and has been reported in lions tigers leopards and other wild cats as well as seals.

Distemper virus can invade the respiratory gastrointestinal skin immune and nervous systems Consequently signs are highly variable and disease course depends both on immune response and viral strain Most commonly early signs of clear to green nasal and ocular discharge loss of appetite and depression are seen 12 weeks after infection sometimes followed by lower respiratory and Date July 2010Species CanineDocument Type Information SheetTopics Infectious Disease.

Canine distemper virus PubMed

Canine distemper virus Canine distemper (sometimes termed footpad disease) is a viral disease that affects a wide variety of mammal families including domestic and wild species of dogs coyotes foxes pandas wolves ferrets skunks raccoons and felines as well as pinnipeds some primates and a variety of other species Class Phylum Kingdom Realm.

Canine distemper Wikipedia

Vaccinebased prophylaxis has greatly helped to keep distemper disease under control Notwithstanding the incidence of canine distemper virus (CDV)related disease in canine populations throughout the world seems to have increased in the past decades and several episodes of CDV disease in vaccinated animals have been reported with nation Author Vito Martella Gabrielle Elia Canio BuonavogliaCited by Publish Year 2008.