VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

CANINE DISTEMPER

• This is a viral disease affecting the canids as well as the felids.
• The occurrence of canine distemper in case of felids as an outbreak has been documented among the free ranging lions in Africa.
• Affected ones reveal dullness, ataxia or deranged gait, anorexia, thick muco-purulent discharge etc. in general.