Canine distemper -- Russia
The critically endangered population of Far Eastern leopards (_Panthera pardus orientalis_) may number as few as 60 individuals and is at risk from stochastic processes such as infectious disease.
During May 2015, a case of canine distemper virus (CDV) was diagnosed in a wild leopard exhibiting severe neurologic disease in the Russian territory of Primorskii Krai. Amplified sequences of the CDV hemagglutinin gene and phosphoprotein gene aligned within the Arctic-like clade of CDV, which
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5570301&promed&0
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