[Pinkpoodle]

how does canine distemper attack the animal immune system, and the effects they have on the tissues and organs. overall damage caused?

[Daveyo]

In response to your question, distemper virus is the same as measles. The major difference is this virus is very deadly to dogs and to cats and many animals, because their immune systems are slightly different than the humans. The virus basically remains the same.

This kind of virus attacks everything once it lodges in the lymph nodes where it stays as its host and it multiplies from there. The virus then seeks other cells inside the body and continues to build up from there infecting one after another.

It also attacks the bone marrow, bringing down the WBC, the kidneys, liver and all vital organs as well as the lungs causing pneumonia, and then it shows the outward signs such as pad hardening to like wood, or the goop showing in the eyes, besides destroying everything inside the dog or cat. Then it attacks the immune nervous system, and breaks the blood brain barrier, thus causing the seizures, like the chewing gum syndrome or brain damage from the first attack, and from the second attack after the first infection from between 10 days to 8 years known as the OLD DOG Syndrome.

The virus is very contagious, and it spreads via airborne and or contact to another infected dog. As of the airborne capability it has a range of 20 miles diameter. That is how potent this virus really is.

To ask how it attacks the system regarding your question is quite very complex and the details is too much to write here. You can ask any VET if they have any Brains, they can explain it Better to you in laymans terms.

The name of Canine Distemper is the same as MEASLES and it is the same in MS in humans. All the very same strain.

Getting the dog vaccinated in a timely manner is a good preventive measure. However there are cases that this disease moves much faster and infects the animals before such vaccination commences. Therefore since that happens, there is a cure against Distemper which is now known, and you can see how to cure the dog that I have posted here for anyone who is desperate. I will be also posting it in more sites as time permits.

Blame the people who refuse to write this knowledge in the medical journals because they not believe. Just recently some time back, there was a crisis at some animal shelter in Florida, where many dogs were getting infected with Canine Distemper and they called in the experts, and hmmmmm, too bad, they could not save nearly a thousand dogs. By the time I found out it was too late.

However, all the dogs that I now have been in contact with, and from my Doctor friend who discovered this cure we have cured now over 600 and it keeps climbing. Whereas the other Doctors who do not want to believe, stand there and watch their dogs die

go figure.