What Deer Diseases Exist?

by Jennifer Smith April 12, 2019

Like other types of warm-blooded mammals, white-tailed deer do get their fair share of diseases spread by one animal to another. Deer hunters should be especially careful of tick diseases, including Lyme Disease, and Chronic Wasting Disease - although there have not been confirmed cases of these deer diseases affecting humans due to possible infected deer meat.

Here are common diseases in deer courtesy of the American Veterinary Medical Association:

Anaplasmosis
Babesiosis
Brucellosis
Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter jejuni)
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)***
Cryptosporidiosis
Deer Parapoxvirus
Hydatid Tapeworms (Echinococcosis)
Ehrlichiosis
Equine Encephalitis Viruses
Escherichia coli Infection (E. coli)
Giardiasis
Hantavirus
Leptospirosis
Lyme Disease (Lyme borreliosis) ***
Q fever
Rabies
Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis)
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Salmonellosis (Salmonella species)
Sarcoptic mange
Toxoplasmosis
Trichinellosis (trichinosis)
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
West Nile Virus
Specific Risks Associated with International Hunting
Chikungunya
Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever
Rift Valley Fever virus

Deer farmers will need to protect domestic deer from potentially infected deer with woven wire fencing and even electric fence as a secondary barrier. Solid lock fence is the strongest metal fence on the market for farm animals including cattle, sheep, goats and domestic deer.

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