Recent Examples on the WebEarlier this year, a snow leopard died from COVID-19 in an Illinois zoo, and according to Martin Gilbert, a wildlife health specialist based at Cornell University, the animals are known to be susceptible to common viruses like canine distemper. Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 27 July 2022 By the end of February, the shelter had euthanized 29 skunks and 20 racoons that were believed to have canine distemper. Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022 Dogs can receive a vaccine for canine distemper as young as six months, and boosters are given every year in a combination shot known as DHPP that also protects against several other diseases. Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2022 While outbreaks of canine distemper can be somewhat cyclical, occurring every few years and then subsiding naturally, the current outbreak in the Bay Area is startling, Campbell said. Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022 At 60 days, they'll be vaccinated for canine distemper and plague and at 90 days, for rabies. Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2021 Since then, canine distemper, an untreatable virus that can infect many types of carnivores, has spread among Amur tigers across the subspecies' range in Russia's far east. Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021 Added genetic diversity could help protect the population from diseases such as sylvatic plague and canine distemper that periodically slash its numbers, reports Mead Gruver for the Associated Press. Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2021 Alonso Aguirre, a wildlife disease expert at George Mason University in Virginia, explains that canine morbillivirus, which causes canine distemper, first jumped to seals in 1988 and has been spreading ever since. Bradley Van Paridon, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2020 See More