Wisconsin wildlife officials confirm that samples from deer found dead in Dane, Sauk and Waukesha counties have tested positive for epizootic hemorrhagic disease, or EHD. They say that 90% of the deer population could be wiped out by this. This is extremely troubling news for me as a sportsman and an avid outdoorsman. What can we do is the question here? I hope the WI DNR can figure something out and quick or we could lose our population and it will take YEARS for it to come back. Here's to hoping!!
Stop feeding the deer!!!!!! Disease is spread by them eating out of the same bait piles. I don't know if this disease spreads that way but spreads others.
No it is not spread that way actually, it is spread by biting flys called midges. It has absolutely nothing to do with hunters baiting piles for those that do. CWD is transmitted through baiting therefore why that is not allowed except in a controlled settig.
What Can Be Done to Prevent or Control Hemorrhagic Disease? At present, there is little that can be done to prevent or control hemorrhagic disease. Risks will be minimized in deer herds that do not exceed the carrying capacity of their habitat. This same concept holds true for most other diseases and parasites of whitetails. The best and only practical means of regulating deer populations is through properly managed sport hunting, including harvest of anterless deer as necessary. Although die-offs of whitetails due to hemorrhagic disease often cause alarm, past experiences have shown that mortality will not totally decimate local deer populations and that the outbreak will be curtailed by the onset of cold weather. Livestock owners who suspect EHD or bluetongue virus infections should seek veterinary assistance to get diagnostic confirmation and supportive care for their animals. Information and photos reprinted with permission from the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study (SCWDS) group. http://www.growingdeer.tv/view/wp-c.../Epizootic-Hemorrhagic-Disease-Fact-Sheet.pdf This should help a little
Your not the only state. Word is Nebraska g&p is gonna hold a meeting about canceling some tags for this year. Its not looking good here either brother.
Do not take this the wrong way, yet hope it stays down in the southern part of WI. Maybe it will help with the CWD issue as well. I do not like seeing anything dying this way, but if it has to happen, hope the one disease wipes the other out.
No need to panic. It's supposed to be in the high 20s and low 30s overnight this coming weekend. It shouldn't be much of an issue if it reaches those temps.
Here is a bit of the above article. Not sure where the DNR got there numbers but there is a big difference to what the research in the article says. Not sure who is right but I'm not losing sleep over it yet. "Hemorrhagic disease occurs frequently, but its severity and distribution are highly variable. Past occurrences have ranged from a few scattered mild cases to dramatic outbreaks. Death losses during outbreaks usually are well below 25 percent of the population but in a few instances have been 50 percent or more. To date, there has not been a deer population wiped out by hemorrhagic disease."
