Canine Diseases
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- A contagious viral disease, that affects the GI system, resulting in sporadic outbreaks of vomiting and diarrhea.
- Coronavirus
- How is the Corona virus transmitted?
- fecal-oral route
- DHPP stands for what?
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D- Distemper
H- Hepatitis
P- Parainfluenza
P- Parvovirus - Highly contagious viral disease, with high fever, and often fatal. Respiratory, GI, and central nervous sytem is affected.
- Distemper
- How is Distemper transmitted?
- through all body secretions and excretions and airborne.
- What is Infectious Tracheobronchitis?
- Contagious respiratory disease often caused by the bacteria Bordetella bronchiseptica.
- How is Infectious Tracheobronchitis transmitted?
- highly contagious via aerosol spread and fomites
- An acute and chronic bacterial disease that affects the lungs, kidneys, and liver. What is it?
- Leptospirosis
- How is leptospirosis transmitted?
- transmitted by food, water, bedding, soil, vegetation, or fomites
- Leptospirosis can be spread in the urine of recovered animals for months to years after infection- True or False
- True
- Name three zoonotic canine diseases.
- Rabies, leptospirosis, and Lyme disease.
- What does zoonotic mean?
- Can be transmitted from animal to human.
- What virus can infect almost all warm blooded animals and is considered not treatable. It infects the nervous system, causing death of paralysis
- Rabies
- How is Rabies transmitted?
- in the saliva
- How is the parvovirus transmitted?
- fecal-oral route
- how long can the parvovirus be stable in the environment?
- months to years
- How is Lyme disease transmitted?
- transmitted most commonly by the deer tick, Ixodes dammini-through a tick bite
- What age do we recommend a puppy has its first vaccine?
- 8 weeks
- What is hepatitis?
- A viral disease caused by adenovirus 1.
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Hepatitis affects the liver, eyes and endothelium.
True or False - True