This happened to me :( I got a beautiful mix of the same two breeds my deceased dog was a year ago, and her name was Naia. She contracted parvo from the pet store. She tested a false negative for it, but one night she got very sick and wasn't getting any better. She was too young yet to be vaccinated for it, too. We took her again to the vets and they hospitalized her immediately. I bleached the entire room where she was kept, her kennel, her waterbowl, her collar. You need to bleach every place she's been and thoroughly wash all of your clothes, or the virus can linger. She was pulling along for two weeks, and we saw her every day, but had to put on gloves to see her and thoroughly wash our hands afterwards. It was horrible. She was so sick, and there's no cure - the dog has to conquer it or they die. She was so strong, Naia. She seemed to be doing better until she got pneumonia from the IV she had, and the parvo and pneumonia progressed too far where even surgery could not help her. We had to put her down. I got so irreversibly attached that it moves me to tears even to this day. She was my little fighter. She was so small, and so young. The pain is unbearable. You want to help but there is nothing you can do but give her anesthesia. I felt so horrible, so broken, for weeks. The absence was like a black hole. The best way to get over it is to get another dog, and that's what we did, several months later. It's the best way to heal. Coming home to an empty house is the worst - when you have a new puppy (or older dog) to take care of, little by little, that begins to mend the hole in your heart. My dog's name is Shadow, and he survived to adulthood without any trace of the parvo virus. :) He's currently almost two. I hope that your brother is doing better than I did. I hope it helps to know that there are other people who've gone through what your family has been through, and that I'm doing quite fine as of now. Best wishes to all of you, and I'm so sorry that you had to go through this. Nobody, especially the dog, deserves this horrible disease. I wish you all the best of luck, and I'm so sorry for your loss. It gets better, I promise.