dogs and wolves have been around for a long time. Does anyone know if history shows these wild animals get the diseases that we vaccinate our dogs for today?

I know that parvo is a common killer of wolves and coyotes under 3 months old.

There are parts of B.C. Canada (as I recall from a canadian news report a few years ago) where they were seeing kill off rates of gray wolves over 90% so they started trapping and vaccinating pups in parts of southern B.C. Their reasoning behind this was that wolves and coyotes were getting infected from dog outbreaks which was not a natural migration of the disease.

I know parvo has recently been cited as an issue in the yellowstone pups as well. Sounds like the overall population is doing well however.

This is the only article I can find citing something about it as a direct impact to wolf numbers in the NW territories.
http://www.nwtwildlife.com/publications/PDF/Wolf_Notes_8.pdf

As far as distemper is concerned it looks like most of the evidence is that wolves have been exposed but little as to the depth of the consiquences of that exposure.

Really wolf information searches will get you the best results as wolf populations are highly monitored in the western US where they are still protected under the endangered species act. No one seems to care if there is a dip in the coyote or fox population. There is also alot of information on these disease impacts on wild dogs in Africa and SE Asia.

When I read wolf reports in Wisconsin, seems like a lot die from "complications resulting from mange".

Not relevant to vaccinations specifically, but...there ya go.

Edit: How about that...we're in the vaccination forum too. My bad.