Canine Distemper

This is very common disease in canines, synonyms of this disease carre’s disease and hard pad disease, this is an acute febrile infectious and contagious disease of dogs, caused by a pantropic virus belongs to paramyxoviridae family, characteristic symptoms associated with fever, acute catarrhal inflammation of various mucus membranes, pneumonia and some cases skin lesions and involvement of central nervous system. This pantropic virus anti-genetically related to measles and rinder pest virus.  Affected animals are dogs, foxes, jackals, minks, raccoons and other wild canidae, route of infection through ingestion, inhalation of air contaminated virus. All the excretions and secretions contain virus.