Distemper virus????????

Question

I need to know a few things for a school project.

1) Time frame for decline of the desease since the vaccine was invented

2) Who invented the vaccine

I already tried searching vet websites

Answer 1

Canine distemper is a contagious, incurable, often fatal, multisystemic viral disease that affects the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and central nervous systems. Distemper is caused by the canine distemper virus (CDV).
The canine distemper virus is closely related to the human measles virus and, in fact, in older times, puppies were immunized for distemper with vaccine against measles.
The cause of Canine Distemper is a morbillivirus (a group of viruses which also includes Measles, Rinderpest and seal distemper (called phocine distemper virus). The virus exists as a single serotype so that vaccination is easily accomplished, but different strains of the virus may be more or less pathogenic than each other.
Phocine Distemper Virus - PDV was first invented and used against seals in Feb2003. Grey seals of North Sea rarely succumb to the disease, but act as carriers to pass it on to the common seal population where it is rapidly fatal. The company behind the breakthrough, Milton Keynes-based biotech firm Intervet UK, normally makes medicines for farm animals and domestic pets.
Please see the webpage for more details on Canine Distember.

Answer 2

do your own homework go to libary an research you can find the answers there you are lazy