Infectious Disease
This term refers to diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans.
What are zoonotic diseases?
This highly contagious virus causes vomiting, diarrhea, and dehydration in puppies.
What is canine parvovirus?
This bacterial disease is spread through urine of infected animals.
What is leptospirosis?
This highly contagious feline pathogen targets the respiratory epithelium and conjunctival tissues, often triggering sneezing, nasal discharge, and the corneal ulcerations classically known as dendritic lesions.
What is Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis (FVR)?
This virus suppresses the immune system and spreads mainly through bite wounds.
What is FIV?
Transmission through recent contact with the infected animal, droplets, or bodily fluids is called this type of transmission.
What is direct transmission?
This canine virus affects the respiratory, GI, and nervous systems.
What is canine distemper virus?
This disease is transmitted by ticks.
What is Lyme disease?
This feline virus often causes oral ulcers and respiratory disease.
What is Feline Calicivirus (FCV)?
This virus spreads through close contact and saliva sharing.
What is FeLV?
This factor increases the spread of infectious disease in shelters and clinics.
What is overcrowding (or poor hygiene/biosecurity)?
This virus is part of the “kennel cough” complex.
What is canine parainfluenza virus?
(CAV‑2)
(CDV)
(CRCoV)
(CIV)
This bacterium is a major cause of kennel cough.
What is Bordetella bronchiseptica?
This virus causes severe immunosuppression in kittens.
What is Feline Panleukopenia Virus (FPV)?
This feline disease results from a mutated coronavirus.
What is FIP?
The study of diseases in populations is known as this.
What is epidemiology?
Adenovirus-2 is primarily associated with this body system.
What is the respiratory system?
The best method to reduce the spread of bacterial disease in clinics
What is proper hygiene, vaccine, and isolation/biosecurity?
FVR and FCV together are part of this disease complex.
What is the Feline Respiratory Disease Complex?
The recommended housing method for FeLV-positive cats in clinics.
What is isolation from healthy cats?
After neurological symptoms emerge (from a bite) in an infected host, this prognosis becomes virtually inevitable due to the virus’s rapid progression through the central nervous system and the absence of effective post‑symptom treatment.
What is Rabies?
This proactive immunological intervention primes a dog’s adaptive defenses by exposing it to harmless antigens, enabling rapid neutralization of pathogens such as distemper, parvovirus, and adenovirus before clinical disease can take hold.
What is vaccination?
This in‑clinic immunodiagnostic assay identifies antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi by using enzyme‑linked antigen detection technology, allowing veterinarians to screen dogs for exposure within minutes.
What is a Lyme SNAP test (ELISA test)?
By reducing environmental pathogen load and priming the feline immune system against agents like panleukopenia, calicivirus, and herpesvirus, this combined approach remains the cornerstone of preventing widespread viral transmission in multi‑cat settings.
What is vaccination and proper sanitation?
This highly contagious viral disease causes severe upper respiratory infection in cats and is a common cause of chronic sneezing and nasal discharge.
What is Feline Herpesvirus-1 (FHV-1)?