EHD spreading in Michigan’s southern Lower Peninsula

This year’s outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease, as reported in a recent edition of Michigan Outdoor News, continues to spread in southern Lower Michigan.
Chad Fedewa, the acting deer, elk and moose specialist with the Michigan DNR, told Michigan Outdoor News that the outbreak of EHD likely will get worse before it gets better.
“In late July we got our first confirmed case, in St. Joe County, and that’s pretty early,” Fedewa said. “In most years we don’t find it until mid- to late-September. Then we get a hard frost and the midge that carries EHD dies off.”

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