13/10/2025
🚨🐾 URGENT WARNING: CANINE DISTEMPER OUTBREAK 🐾🚨
A Canine Distemper outbreak has been confirmed in our area. This highly contagious and potentially deadly virus is spreading rapidly between dogs, especially among unvaccinated pets.
❗ What is Canine Distemper?
Canine Distemper is a viral disease that attacks a dog’s respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems.
🦠 How It Spreads:
• Airborne: Through coughing and sneezing from infected dogs
• Direct contact: Nose-to-nose, licking, or close proximity
• Contaminated surfaces: Bowls, toys, leashes, bedding
• Humans can carry the virus on hands, clothes, or shoes
🐶 Symptoms to Watch For:
• Coughing, sneezing, nasal or eye discharge
• Fever, fatigue, loss of appetite
• Vomiting or diarrhea
• Hardening of nose or paw pads
• Seizures, muscle twitching, loss of balance, or paralysis ( severe stages)
🧪💊 Diagnosis & Treatment:
Veterinarians diagnose canine distemper through clinical appearance and laboratory testing.
Unfortunately, there is no cure or specific treatment for canine distemper
There are also no antiviral drugs that are effective in treating the disease.
The mortality rate of the virus largely depends on the immune status of the infected dog . Puppies experience the highest mortality rate, where complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis are common.
🛡️ Preventing Canine Distemper:
The best prevention for canine distemper is routine vaccination
💉 A series of vaccinations are administered to puppies to increase the likelihood of building immunity when the immune system has not yet fully matured.
Make sure your dogs vaccinations are up to date .
Use caution when socializing puppies or unvaccinated dogs at parks or areas where dogs congregate.
📞 Please contact Overberg Veterinary Hospital should you have any concerns or questions : 028 2121 551
🔁 PLEASE SHARE this post to help protect other dogs in our community!
🐾DRINGENDE WAARSKUWING: HONDE-SIEKTE UITBRAAK 🐾🚨
Daar is ‘n ernstige uitbraak van Honde-siekte (Canine Distemper) in ons area bevestig. Hierdie aansteeklike en moontlik dodelike virus versprei vinnig tussen honde, veral dié wat nie ingeënt is nie.
❗ Wat is Honde-siekte?
Honde-siekte is ‘n virussiekte wat ‘n hond se asemhalingstelsel, spysverteringstelsel en senuweestelsel aantas.
🦠 Hoe versprei dit?
• In die lug deur hoes of nies van besmette honde
• Direkte kontak met ‘n besmette hond (neus tot neus, lek ens.)
• Deel van bakke, speelgoed, beddegoed of oppervlakke
• Mense kan die virus op hul hande, klere of skoene dra en onbewustelik oordra
🐶 Simptome waarvoor jy moet oplet:
• Hoes, nies, neus- of oogafskeiding
• Koors, moegheid, geen eetlus
• Braking of diarree
• Verharding van die neuspunt of pote
• Bewegingsprobleme, spiertrekkings, aanvalle of verlamming in gevorderde stadiums
🧪💊 Diagnose & Behandeling:
Daar is geen genesing vir die virus self nie , net simptomatiese behandeling en bystand in die hospitaal.
Die veearts sal Honde siekte diagnoseer deur kliniese simptome en monsters te neem vir ‘n antigeen toets .
⚠️ Honde met senuweestelsel-simptome het dikwels ‘n swak prognose.
🛡️ Voorkoming van Honde-siekte:
Inenting is jou beste beskerming teen Honde-siekte
💉 Hondjies moet hul eerste enting tussen 6–8 weke kry, met opvolg-entings soos aanbeveel deur jou veearts.
Maak seker U hond se inentings is op datum .
Vermy openbare plekke soos parke veral met honde wat nog geen entings gehad het nie . Asook ouer honde wat se entings nie op datum is nie .
📞 Kontak Overberg Dierehospitaal indien U navrae het :
028 2121 551
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