distemper

The five pathogens, as disease-causing agents are collectively called, that have become more common in polar bears, are two parasites that cause toxoplasmosis and neosporosis, two types of bacteria that cause rabbit fever and brucellosis, and the virus that causes canine distemper.

He was a political grifter with a southern smile, a soft handshake and in his later years a warbling cadence and voice that reminded one of a wild turkey with distemper wandering through the woods, lost, proud and very vocal.

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.”