Friends who raise dogs all know about canine distemper, which is a highly contact infectious disease caused by canine distemper virus and is extremely contagious. The early stage of canine distemper is the best time to treat. The early symptoms of this virus are very similar to those of colds. This is also the key that many parents are likely to ignore. If the parents do not notice it, it will basically continue to the later stage. Typical neurological symptoms will appear in the later stage of canine distemper, such as foaming and convulsions. It is generally difficult to cure at this time, but some of them have been cured successfully, but dogs will leave more or less sequelae. In addition to the similar symptoms to colds, there is another main reason why canine distemper has an incubation period. So how long is the incubation period of canine distemper?

1. The incubation period of canine distemper

There are generally two statements about the incubation period of canine distemper in dogs. The first is the usual incubation period, from infection to the first fever, which is about 3-9 days. This is the infection to the symptoms. The second statement includes the first symptoms to the typical symptoms of this virus. Generally speaking, this period is about 2-14 days. If a dog just arrived home, it may have been infected with the virus before purchasing. The reason why I didn’t find it was because of a fake overdue in canine distemperment, that is, the dog is normal during the fake overdue period, and the virus will only attack after a period of time. The symptoms are serious and obvious, and the course of the disease lasts about 7-10 days.

Judgement and prevention of early symptoms of canine distemper

2. Incubation period symptoms of canine distemper The incubation period of canine distemper The incubation period of canine distemper is more serious, and its neurological symptoms are one of the characteristics of the disease. Generally, there are three situations: 1. Appear 7-21 days after the systemic symptoms are restored; 2. It is manifested at the beginning of fever; 3. Appears with it after serious systemic symptoms appear. The symptoms are mainly manifested in the local twitching of the sick dog's lips, eyelids, ear roots, a certain forelimb or hind limbs. In severe cases, salivation, empty chewing, foaming on the mouth, and twitching on the ground, which is an epileptic seizure. After the twitching stops, some barks, circles, and collisions occur, which lasts from several seconds to several minutes, and the number of attacks has also increased from several times a day to more than a dozen times. A small number of sick dogs may survive after treatment, while some are accompanied by sequelae such as weakness in the hindquarters, local twitching of the limbs and facial features. Some sick dogs have dry nose lenses when they occur, swelling of the four-legged foot pads, excessive hyperplasia and keratosis, resulting in hard foot pad disease. Bean-like papules may also appear on the abdomen of a few sick dogs.

3. Characteristics of canine distemper viruses

Canine distemper rarely occurs alone, and in most cases there are mixed infections. Secondary bacterial infection is one of the main causes of increased mortality. If there is concurrent pneumonia, the mortality rate can be as high as more than 90%. Dogs that are still in the toxic stage after recovery, other animals with canine distemper virus are mainly sick dogs and toxic dogs. The virus exists in the liver, spleen, brain, kidneys, and lymph node tissues. They are detoxified from the body through tears, nose juice, saliva, urine and exhaled air, polluting the surrounding air, water sources, food, utensils, etc., making it a vector for the spread of this disease. Clinically recovered dogs can detoxify the outside world for a long time and are often overlooked by people. Therefore, canine distemper can be transmitted through nose, eye secretions and urine.