distemper

But he had a rough puppyhood, having been abandoned at a shelter where he suffered distemper, a viral disease and heartworm before being adopted.

We’ve only seen the psychic distemper brought about by excessive nationalism and the equally violent response to it.

These included rabies for dogs and cats, canine parvovirus and canine distemper for dogs, and feline panleukopenia and feline Bordetella for cats.

“The big one, of course, is rabies. Rabies is a killer… but there's also parvovirus. There's distemper. There's roundworm. There's leptospirosis. I mean, I could go on and on.”

Populations of that subspecies found only on the island crashed to roughly 100 in 1999 because of a canine distemper epidemic.