Can parvovirus infect humans? Prevention and treatment of parvovirus! Parvovirus is more common in puppies and mainly manifests as gastrointestinal diseases and myocarditis. Parvo is very harmful to dogs, is contagious, and has a high mortality rate. Dogs suffering from parvovirus usually present with vomiting, bloody diarrhea, foul-smelling feces and lack of energy, weight loss, loss of appetite, etc.

What is parvovirus?

Enteritis type: The incubation period of natural infection is 7-14 days. The initial symptoms of the disease are fever, body temperature can reach above 40℃, depression, inability to eat, and vomiting. , the initial vomitus is food, that is, it is mucus-like and yellow-green liquid. Diarrhea started one day after the onset of symptoms. At the beginning of the disease, the feces are gruel-like. As the disease progresses, the feces becomes brown or tomato paste color, fishy smell, and the frequency of defecation is variable. After bloody stools, the sick dogs may show sunken eyeballs, dry nose, general weakness, significant weight loss, and pale conjunctiva. Severe anemia symptoms. If the disease is not treated in time, it can cause poisoning due to the absorption of toxins in the intestinal contents, causing the body to go into shock, coma and death. The initial vomitus is food, which is mucus-like, yellow-green or contains blood. Diarrhea started about a day after the onset of symptoms. The feces will be loose at the beginning of the disease. As the disease progresses, the feces will become brown or tomato paste-colored and bloody.

As the frequency increases in the future, the bloody stool will have a special fishy smell. A few hours after the bloody stool, the sick dog showed symptoms of severe dehydration, sunken eyeballs, dry nose, reduced skin elasticity, and significant weight loss. For severe cases of intestinal bleeding, the corruption of intestinal contents can cause endotoxin poisoning and disseminated intravascular coagulation, leading to shock, coma, and death. If dogs with enteritis-type canine parvovirus disease can be treated promptly and reasonably, the mortality rate can be reduced.

Myocarditis type is more common in puppies between 4 and 6 weeks old. It often has no warning symptoms or only mild diarrhea, followed by sudden weakness, groaning, cyanosis of the mucous membrane, extreme difficulty in breathing, fast and weak pulse, and heart failure. There is a murmur on auscultation, and death often occurs suddenly (possibly due to acute respiratory depression) within a few hours. Autopsy shows dilation of the heart, pale streaks on the myocardium, and congestive heart failure.

Can parvovirus be transmitted to humans? Parvovirus is not a zoonotic disease and can only be transmitted to dogs, not humans. If there are other dogs at home, the sick dogs should be isolated from healthy dogs as soon as possible, and the dog's residence should be disinfected. If a dog is found to be suffering from parvovirus, it should be deprived of water and food, and the dog should be sent to the pet hospital in time.