Intensive disease surveillance in an endangered population of Ethiopian wolves provided evidence of concurrent outbreaks of rabies and canine distemper viruses in 2019, including co-infection in an individual animal. Disease surveillance and intensive monitoring of wolf packs in Ethiopia were essential in detecting the concurrent outbreaks and enabled accurate assessment of disease from both pathogens. The study highlights the risk posed to endangered populations that are susceptible to, or live in areas with, reservoir hosts for canine distemper and rabies viruses. Instances of concurrent distemper and rabies outbreaks appear unusual in the existing literature; modeling for one disease might underestimate the risk for extinction. Concurrent outbreaks may have a larger effect than single-disease outbreaks, even in a population that has partial vaccination coverage. Researchers studying wildlife populations from a conservation perspective should be aware that both diseases can strike at once where susceptible populations exist.

对濒危埃塞俄比亚狼种群的密切疾病监测提供了 2019 年狂犬病和犬瘟热病毒同时爆发的证据，包括个体动物的混合感染。埃塞俄比亚的疾病监测和对狼群的密集监测对于检测并发的疫情至关重要，并能够准确评估两种病原体的疾病。该研究强调了对易患犬瘟热和狂犬病病毒的濒危人群构成的风险，这些人群或生活在有犬瘟热和狂犬病病毒宿主的地区。同时爆发犬瘟热和狂犬病暴发的情况在现有文献中似乎很不寻常;对一种疾病进行建模可能会低估灭绝的风险。并发暴发可能比单一疾病暴发产生更大的影响，即使在免疫接种覆盖率部分的人群中也是如此。从保护角度研究野生动物种群的研究人员应该意识到，在存在易感种群的地方，这两种疾病可以同时发作。