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Virus killing hundreds of Southwest Pennsylvania deer with internal bleeding
Matthew Santoni | Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, 2:24 p.m.
Hundreds of dead white-tailed deer in the region may have been killed by a disease that causes internal bleeding and is likely responsible for thousands more deaths in other states.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is monitoring reports of epizootic hemorrhaging disease , or EHD, in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and northern Washington counties, said Samara Trusso, southwestern regional biologist and wildlife management supervisor.
A group of dead deer possibly felled by EHD were found in Westmoreland County near its border with Allegheny. They were too decomposed to test for confirmation, Trusso said.
?There's been nothing tested or that met the requirements for testing in Westmoreland County,? Trusso said. ?There was one report of a few found in a creek bed, but we couldn't make a determination because they were too far gone.? ...
Virus killing hundreds of Southwest Pennsylvania deer with internal bleeding
Matthew Santoni | Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, 2:24 p.m.
Hundreds of dead white-tailed deer in the region may have been killed by a disease that causes internal bleeding and is likely responsible for thousands more deaths in other states.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission is monitoring reports of epizootic hemorrhaging disease , or EHD, in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Lawrence and northern Washington counties, said Samara Trusso, southwestern regional biologist and wildlife management supervisor.
A group of dead deer possibly felled by EHD were found in Westmoreland County near its border with Allegheny. They were too decomposed to test for confirmation, Trusso said.
?There's been nothing tested or that met the requirements for testing in Westmoreland County,? Trusso said. ?There was one report of a few found in a creek bed, but we couldn't make a determination because they were too far gone.? ...
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