{"id":17070,"date":"2017-09-13T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=17070"},"modified":"2017-09-19T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T15:27:26","slug":"wildlife-experts-tracking-reports-of-recent-deer-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/09\/13\/wildlife-experts-tracking-reports-of-recent-deer-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Experts Tracking Reports of Recent Deer Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Department Requests Public’s Assistance in Reporting Impaired or Sick White-Tailed Deer<\/i><\/p>\n

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> is asking hunters, outdoor enthusiasts, and others to report any deer they encounter that appear sick or have recently died.<\/p>\n

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The department’s wildlife experts are tracking possible cases of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease<\/a> or EHD, a common, naturally-occurring disease among white-tailed deer that typically occurs nationwide in the late summer and early fall.<\/p>\n

Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease cases typically occur between mid-August and October and is caused by a virus that is transmitted through the bite of tiny flying midges. The onset of freezing weather typically brings an end to a given outbreak as it kills the midges.<\/p>\n

Deer contracting the disease may exhibit symptoms of lethargy, often salivate excessively and appear to lose their fear of humans. Hemorrhaging from the mouth and tongue is also a common symptom. Infected deer are often found in or near water.\u00a0\u00a0Severe emaciation may be observed in animals recovering from the disease.\u00a0EHD poses no threat to humans.<\/p>\n

The department is investigating several unconfirmed reports of EHD, primarily on the Eastern Shore. Neighboring states of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia also have received reports. Maryland’s healthy white-tailed deer population is routinely subjected to these outbreaks and easily recovers from the localized effects of the disease.<\/p>\n

The department requests that anyone encountering a deer that is showing symptoms not to disturb or remove the animal but instead are encouraged to contact their regional Wildlife and Heritage Service office<\/a> to report the animal and its location. The department recommends not eating deer which appear visibly sick, regardless of cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Department Requests Public’s Assistance in Reporting Impaired or Sick White-Tailed Deer The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is asking hunters, outdoor enthusiasts, and others to report any deer they encounter that appear sick or have recently died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3172,13],"tags":[3059,3126,3684],"class_list":["post-17070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-deer","tag-eastern-shore","tag-epizootic-hemorrhagic-disease"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17097,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions\/17097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}