That is what I do not like about shelters! Outbreaks like this can steal the life right of of all of them just because they were there... That happened at the shelter I helped out at.. I told the manager, I smelled distemper in the cat room and she thought I was crazy and asked if I'd found any dead... I hadn't. The next day 2 were dead, the day after a Mama that had just given birth was so sick she couldn't move. I never went back.. I couldn't watch the rest of them die... Distemper has a distinct smell and although I hadn't smelled it in years, I reconized it immediately.