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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duckslayer100" data-source="post: 495644" data-attributes="member: 1485">Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in deer tends to increase significantly during drought years. [<a href="https://wildlifehealth.org/drought-related-increase-in-cases-of-bluetongue-and-epizootic-hemorrhagic-in-eastern-washington-deer/" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNU1KKo7NnE&t=47" target="_blank">2</a>]Why Drought Increases EHD Outbreaks<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">More Breeding Habitat: Receding water levels in ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers leave behind exposed, damp mud. Tiny biting flies called midges (the insects that carry and spread the EHD virus) use this mud to lay eggs and thrive. [<a href="https://www.bowhunter.com/editorial/how-to-react-to-hemorrhagic-disease/309192" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://wildlifeillinois.org/identify-wildlife/wildlife-diseases/" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://anilogics.com/blog/drought-and-ehd-are-they-correlated/" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/wildlife-management/wildlife-disease/epizootic-hemorrhagic-disease" target="_blank">4</a>]</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Crowded Water Sources: When water becomes scarce during a drought, deer are forced to gather closely together at the few remaining water holes. [<a href="https://www.bowhunter.com/editorial/how-to-react-to-hemorrhagic-disease/309192" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://wildlifeillinois.org/identify-wildlife/wildlife-diseases/" target="_blank">2</a>]</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Higher Transmission Rates: Crowding deer into smaller areas around shrinking water sources puts them in direct contact with large numbers of infected midges. [<a href="https://wildlifeillinois.org/identify-wildlife/wildlife-diseases/" target="_blank">1</a>]</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fever-Seeking Behavior: EHD causes a high fever in deer, which makes the sick animals actively seek out water to cool down. This behavior concentrates dying or infected deer right next to the muddy breeding grounds of the midges. [<a href="https://www.sweetlix.com/research-articles/farm-flockwildlife/epizootic-hemorrhagic-disease-ehd-prevalent-during-drought/" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOgEaEfDaT9/?hl=en" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZS-yxQ3kqc&t=45" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ifUlPXyHyaU" target="_blank">4</a>]</li> </ul></li> </ul>The ideal recipe for a severe EHD outbreak is often a wet spring (which grows the insect population) followed by a hot, dry late summer that shrinks water sources and exposes muddy shorelines. Outbreaks typically stop immediately after a hard frost kills off the biting midges for the winter. [<a href="https://ohiodnr.gov/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/wildlife-management/wildlife-disease/epizootic-hemorrhagic-disease" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://iowasportsman.com/cwd-and-ehd-in-iowa-2/" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNU1KKo7NnE&t=47" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOgEaEfDaT9/?hl=en" target="_blank">4</a>]</blockquote>

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