The Foundation to Your Dog’s Health
No matter how careful we are with our dogs, it's important to protect them from common diseases with these core vaccines recommended by AAHA*.
*American Animal Hospital Association
DAPP
Forming the Base of Protection for Dogs of All Ages
DAPP is a group of highly contagious viruses that are often spread through close contact with other dogs. In some cases, these diseases may be life threatening, but regular vaccination boosters are an easy way to help protect your dog.
A highly contagious and often fatal virus, Distemper spreads through droplets in the air and affects the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and nervous systems.
Type 1 is easily contracted from contaminated fluids, infections can cause fever, vomiting, and diarrhea. This disease spreads to the liver, kidney, and eyes causing severe damage, and in some cases death.
Type 2 is spread through droplets in the air, common symptoms often include cough, diffculty breathing, fever, poor appetite, and lung infection. In serious cases, severe pnuemonia can occur leading to death.
Spread through droplets in the air, common symptoms often include cough, difficulty breathing, fever, poor appetite, and lung infection. This disease can become more severe with multiple infections, or in very young puppies.
Occuring when contaminated feces come in contact with a dog’s mouth or nose, symptoms include fever, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and heart damage. Severe forms of this illness can lead to death.
Leptospirosis
Protecting Your Pup While They Play
Leptospirosis, also known as “lepto,” affects most species of mammals, including dogs and humans.1 This bacterium can survive in water or soil for months, so something as simple as drinking out of a puddle or playing in the mud could infect your dog.
Initial symptoms can include:
Fever, sore muscles, dehydration, vomiting or diarrhea, or jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes).
Left untreated, leptospirosis can lead to:
Severe kidney or liver damage and, in some cases, can be fatal.2
Rabies
Protecting Pets From Rabies
Rabies is easily spread to family members and can often be fatal in dogs. Once your pet is infected, there are no treatment options available.
Typically we think of rabies showing signs immediately, but depending on where a pet is bitten it can take 3-12 weeks for signs to show.3
Signs of rabies can include:
Anxiety, fever, uncoordinated walking, and lack of appetite. As the disease progresses, animals develop hypersensitivity to light and sound – they may also have seizures or become extremely vicious.There is no test for rabies in live animals
Rabies can only be diagnosed through testing of brain tissue of an animal who has died or been euthanized.
If an unvaccinated pet is exposed to a rabid animal and then shows signs of the disease, euthanasia is the only option. If a pet is exposed but then does not show signs, long-term quarantine may be an option.
Vaccinating your pet against rabies is the best defense for protecting them from harm.
References:
Bharti, AR, et al., Lancet Infet Dis, 2003. Leptospirosis, a zoonotic disease of global importance.
Leptospirosis. CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/leptospirosis/index.html. Accessed June 2019.
Compendium of animal rabies prevention and control, 2016. National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians Compendium of Animal Rabies Prevention and Control Committee. http://nasphv.org/Documents/NASPHVRabiesCompendium.pdf. Accessed August 2019.
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