What is canine distemper? People don't know much about this relatively serious and common disease. The so-called canine distemper, also known as canine distemper, is a highly contagious disease that often occurs in puppies.  There is a possibility of infection even if you do not go out.

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1. Canine distemper is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by canine distemper virus. It is extremely contagious and the mortality rate can be as high as 80%. In the early stage of canine distemper symptoms, the dog's body temperature is as high as 39.5 to 41 degrees Celsius, loss of appetite, depression, watery secretions from the eyes and nose, sneezing, and diarrhea. In the next 2 to 14 days, the body temperature will rise again, cough, purulent nasal discharge, and purulent eye mucus. At this time, it is already in the middle stage of canine distemper. At the same time secondary gastrointestinal diseases, vomiting, diarrhea, loss of appetite. Highly depressed and lethargic. In the later stage of the onset of canine distemper, typical neurological symptoms, foaming at the mouth, and convulsions will appear. It is generally difficult to cure at this time, but there are also some cases of successful cure.

2. Canine distemper is a serious infectious disease, generally characterized by complex fever, acute nasal catarrh, bronchitis, catarrh pneumonia, severe gastroenteritis and neurological symptoms. In dogs, there will also be hyperkeratosis of the nose and foot pads. It is often mixed with parvovirus, canine infectious hepatitis, pneumonia, etc., so the mortality rate is extremely high. The disease is similar to fever in the early stage and is easily overlooked by parents. It manifests as conjunctivitis, dry cough, then wet cough, dyspnea, vomiting, diarrhea, intussusception, and finally death due to severe dehydration and debilitating children.

3. The prevalence of canine distemper: Canine distemper is distributed in almost all countries in the world and occurs in all dog-raising countries. However, the disease is more frequent in the cold season from October to April of the following year, especially in densely populated places, residences, kennels and other areas in various countries. Once the disease occurs in the dog group, it is difficult for other dogs to avoid infection unless under absolute isolation conditions, and the recovered dogs can obtain lifelong immunity after the disease.

4. The incidence of canine distemper is related to age

1. There is a 20% chance of getting the disease within 2 months of age, because the lactating dog can get the disease from breast milk. Get enough antibodies, so you will rarely get sick.

2. There is a 70% chance of getting this disease from 2 months to 12 months old, and the puppies in the next period are the high incidence group of this disease.

3. Over 2 years old, the incidence is low.

4. There is a 5% chance of developing the disease between the ages of 5 and 10.