The invention discloses dual RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) detection for a CDV (canine distemper virus) and a CPIV (canine parainfluenza virus) and a special primer for the detection. The invention provides the special primer for virus detection. The primer comprises a primer pair A and a primer pair B, wherein the primer pair A comprises a primer 1 and a primer 2; the primer pair B comprises a primer 3 and a primer 4; and nucleotide sequences of the primer 1, primer 2, primer 3 and the primer 4 are sequence 1, sequence 2, sequence 3 and sequence 4 respectively in a sequence table. Experiments prove that the special primer for dual RT-PCR detection for the CDV and the CPIV has good sensibility, can at least detect the RNA (ribonucleic acid) content to be about 1*10<-3>ng / mu L, the sensitivity is far higher than that of 1 ng / mu L. A dual RT-PCR detection method is simple, convenient, fast, economical and efficient, and has good application prospect.