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Wildlife officials blame virus for dead deer in Ore.
MEDFORD (AP) ? Oregon wildlife officials say blacktail deer are being found dead in several rural communities in southern Oregon?s Jackson County, marking the return of a naturally occurring virus that killed more than 1,000 deer in 2002...
...Humans and other animals are not considered susceptible to this strain of the disease.
First diagnosed in Northern California in the mid-1990s, adenovirus hemorrhagic disease is believed to have been responsible in the late 1980s for killing hundreds of deer whose deaths originally were attributed to a different disease known as bluetongue. A smaller outbreak occurred in Southern Oregon in 2009...
Wildlife officials blame virus for dead deer in Ore.
MEDFORD (AP) ? Oregon wildlife officials say blacktail deer are being found dead in several rural communities in southern Oregon?s Jackson County, marking the return of a naturally occurring virus that killed more than 1,000 deer in 2002...
...Humans and other animals are not considered susceptible to this strain of the disease.
First diagnosed in Northern California in the mid-1990s, adenovirus hemorrhagic disease is believed to have been responsible in the late 1980s for killing hundreds of deer whose deaths originally were attributed to a different disease known as bluetongue. A smaller outbreak occurred in Southern Oregon in 2009...