(1) If these wild dogs don't die of sheer starvation, he said, diseases such as parvovirus , heartworm, or intestinal parasites usually kill them.(2) Puppies should be vaccinated against distemper, infectious hepatitis, leptospirosis, parvovirus , parainfluenza and rabies.(3) When parvovirus appeared in the late 1970s Max said vets were initially baffled.(4) Effective vaccines exist for a number of animal parvoviruses .(5) Owing to narrow tissue or species specificity of parvoviruses, animal parvoviruses do not infect humans.