With bow deer season looming, early onset of EHD a concern
Mike Moore
August 31, 2022
This year’s outbreak of EHD comes right on the doorstep of the statewide bow season opener for deer on Sept. 24.
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease
Reported EHD cases in Illinois whitetails continue to dwindle, at 432 for 2018
Illinois DNR
November 2, 2018
The worst year for the disease in Illinois was 2012, when 2,968 cases were reported from 87 counties. In 2013, the IDNR received reports of 1,224 cases from 64 counties. EHD was virtually absent in
EHD detected in Minnesota deer for first time
Staff and News Reports
October 17, 2018
Six of seven animals in a small herd of captive white-tailed deer in Goodhue County died of the disease earlier this month.
Hunters, landowners asked to report suspected cases of EHD in deer
Illinois DNR
September 19, 2018
55 EHD-reported cases from 17 counties so far in 2018.
EHD was moderate in state’s deer herd in 2017
Ralph Loos
February 8, 2018
According to the DNR, 66 reports of EHD were received from landowners and hunters totaling 169 deer in 32 counties. By comparison, in 2012, the worst year for EHD in Illinois, a total of 2,968
Kentucky wildlife officials: First frost halts EHD in state’s deer population
Staff and News Reports
November 8, 2017
Kentucky Fish and Wildlife fielded 1,822 individual reports and documented 4,586 suspected EHD cases through phone calls and an online reporting system, but Kentucky’s deer seasons are continuing as scheduled this year.
Free-ranging deer in Michigan’s Genesee County tests positive for EHD
Michigan DNR
September 20, 2017
No cases of EHD were confirmed in the state in either 2014 or 2015, and minimal cases were reported in 2016.
In New Jersey, on the alert for Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in deer
Staff and News Reports
September 11, 2017
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish and Wildlife is asking those who are out in the fields and woods of New Jersey at this time of year to be alert for
In South Dakota, first documented hemorrhagic disease deer deaths in 2017
Staff and News Reports
September 6, 2017
EHD was recently confirmed by laboratory analysis in a white-tailed deer in eastern Harding County and a white-tailed deer in western Butte County.
