Chronic Wasting Disease

Hemorrhagic Diseases: EHD and Bluetongue

Deer Hair-loss Syndrome

Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Bovine Tuberculosis

Meningeal Worm (Brainworm)

Brucellosis

Anthrax

Malignant Catarrhal Fever (MCF)

Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD)

Necrobacillosis

Adenovirus Hemorrhagic Disease (AHD)

  Mule deer may serve as a reservoir or a vector for diseases that not only affect other wildlife but domestic livestock. A second reason for concern is that as our habitat base shrinks we ultimately end up concentrating more wildlife on smaller areas. As this happens disease-related mortality can increase. Lastly, diseases are a major part of the increasingly complex business of wildlife management. They can, as the news stories suggest, be just as important as food habitats, biology, and habitat requirements in managing populations. Incidences of diseases in mule deer and other wildlife can provide managers with "early warning signals" about the health of a population and the condition of their habitat.

Can mule deer get colds?
   Disease and mule deer are not strangers. In addition to the new kid on the block, CWD,
mule deer can contact literally dozens of viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases. CWD is the disease of moment because it arguably could take the greatest toll on mule deer, mule deer hunters, and western wildlife management. One of the questions still yet to be answered about CWD is if it can be transferred to domestic livestock and ultimately humans.

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