Canine distemper is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the canine distemper virus. Huskydogs have a very high mortality rate if they get this disease, about 30%-80%. If your husky has sneezing, runny nose, cough, fever (body temperature can reach above 40°, and it will quickly drop to normal temperature after 2 days), you have to be careful, maybe your husky has canine distemper. Here are the symptoms of husky distemper and how to treat it.

1. Symptoms of Husky Distemper

【Early Canine Distemper Symptoms】

If a husky has canine distemper, the early symptoms are mainly cold symptoms and enteritis symptoms. Sneezing, runny nose, cough, fever (body temperature can reach above 40°, and it will quickly drop to normal temperature after 2 days), eat less food, and mild diarrhea. After 2-4 days of treatment, the symptoms basically disappeared, and the appetite returned to normal, but the speed of eating slowed down, the spirit was poor, and the nose was dry.

【Mid-term canine distemper symptoms】

Husky distemper began to turn to mid-term in 7-14 days, when the body temperature rose for the second time. Generally speaking, it will be above 40 degrees, and the effect of any antipyretic medicine is not obvious, and it can last for 7-12 days; loss of appetite, serous rhinorrhea, dry cough, rapid breathing, eyelid swelling, dampness or erosion.

【Late Canine Distemper Symptoms】

In the late stage of husky distemper, the body temperature returns to normal (may be accompanied by a mild fever, about 38.5- 39.5 degrees), cough, purulent nasal discharge, eyelid erosion, eyes half-open and half-closed, eyes become smaller, thin, and like to lie down and move. Eat less, picky eaters or fasting, diarrhea. In addition, thickened toe pads, skin papules (in some cases, red papules the size of rice grains appeared on the skin of the lower abdomen and medial thigh) and neurological symptoms.

2. Four manifestations of neurological symptoms of canine distemper

1. The husky's mouth opens and closes, or the corners of the mouth, the muscles of the head or a certain Rhythmic shaking of the legs, two legs, or four legs.

2. Husky exercising blindly

3. Epilepsy, spasmodic intermittent seizures, involuntary continuous smacking, foaming in the mouth or blood in saliva, urinary incontinence, At the end of the convulsions, he is excited and restless, runs blindly, and finally is completely weak and rests on the ground.

4. The husky's hind legs are paralyzed or even paralyzed.

3. Canine distemper prevention and control

The best way to prevent and treat huskies is to immunize them regularly and receive canine distemper vaccine. If a husky is unfortunate enough to get canine distemper, here are some treatment methods:

Timely isolation and treatment to detect sick dogs, early isolation and treatment, and prevention of secondary infection are the keys to improving the cure rate and reducing the mortality rate. In the early stage of the disease, anti-canine distemper hyperimmune serum (or canine five-linked hyperimmune serum) or the recovered dog serum (or whole blood) can be injected intramuscularly or subcutaneously.

At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the disinfection of the kennel. If feeding more than one husky, the sick husky should be strictly isolated first. At the same time, it is thoroughly disinfected with various disinfectants, such as 100% sterilization, Lysol, caustic soda, and sodium hypochlorite.