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Concern About A Deer Disease

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Charlotte Duren

The dreaded Ebola virus is a hemorrhagic disease… it can cause copious bleeding in the body. 

Deer can contract their own hemorrhagic disease, and it appears to be showing up in Southern Oregon. 

Deer have been dropping in the woods of late, indicating that adenovirus is spreading from urban deer to deer that hang out in the country. 

Oregon's Fish and Wildlife Department is keeping an eye on the situation.  ODFW's Steve Niemela joins us.

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.