Ambrose Bierce

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

American Journalist

Distemper often refers to a serious disease in dogs and cats; pet owners should be aware.

Common in Pets

Mentioning distemper in conversation implies the importance of vaccinating pets.

Vaccination Essential

Avoid confusing this distemper with human diseases; it's specific to animals.

Not Human Ailment

Distemper in architecture usually refers to an old-fashioned type of wall paint.

Historic Material

Distemper as a paint is water-based and was commonly used on walls as a finish.

Wall Treatment

When renovating, distemper can signal the building's age and need for special care.

Renovation Clue

The medical meaning of distemper is archaic; it's not commonly used in modern times.

Outdated Term

When used historically, it often included symptoms like mood swings and coughs.

Symptoms Mentioned

Don't confuse distemper with current illnesses; it's a term from the past.

Not Modern Sickness

 because we pick what is conserved throughout evolution. Here's another guy. You can play the diagnosis game yourself here. These different blocks represent the different viruses in this paramyxovirus family, so you can kind of go down the blocks and see where the signal is. Well, doesn't have canine distemper; that's probably good.

Joe DeRisi: Hunting the...

 signal like this in states that the safety is off it's a good reminder morbillivirus is what we're hoping to protect these seals against and people may be more familiar with a few specific more bili viruses such as canine distemper so that is something that dogs

The Strange—but...

 all ready to go three more ferrets going back to the wild is great news but before they can leave for good they have to go through one more process first they need two vaccinations one against canine distemper and the other against sylvatic plague a