Can EHD Be Prevented?

Few emotions in hunting compare to the devastated feeling you get when you find that big buck you’ve been watching all summer — only it’s rotting by a shallow water hole or trickling stream. Some of the best deer hunting spots in the nation have been ravished by EHD and bluetongue, diseases that kill whitetail deer and seem to zero in on mature bucks. What is it? Can something be done to reduce the carnage? This QDMA article post explains how to be proactive against this deadly whitetail disease.

Hemorrhagic disease (HD) hit whitetails extremely hard in 2012, the latest in a recent string of notable years for outbreaks. The disease (mostly strains of a virus known as epizootic hemorrhagic disease or EHD, but which also includes the closely related bluetongue virus) is striking areas that were previously unaffected, or rarely affected. In these areas it is having its worst impact, because whitetails have less history with the disease and therefore less acquired resistance to the viruses… [continued]

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