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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5190227" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Yes, Blue Tongue and EHD are closely related but not the same. They are in the same family of diseases, sort of like SARS and Covid - different varieties of the same virus.</p><p></p><p>EHD is endemic to the Southeast, meaning it is around all the time, every year. But huge outbreaks that hunters notice only occur once every 4-10 years in any given location. Middle TN had the worst EHD out break I've ever seen in 2007. Some locations lost upwards of 80% of the deer population, although 30-50% were more common losses. Hickman, Perry and parts of Houston and Humphreys had another bad outbreak in 2019.</p><p></p><p>Big outbreaks always occur at the tail end of hot dry summers. This is when deer are concentrated around just a few remaining waterholes, where they can all come in contact with an infected population of the midges that transmit the disease. In August and September, these sick deer go to water to cool their fevers, and ponds and creeks can be loaded with dead deer. However, I've noticed die-offs are much heavier in low swampy ground. Often ridge-top properties see little die-off because there's so little stagnant water in these environments, and that is the environment the midges breed in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5190227, member: 17"] Yes, Blue Tongue and EHD are closely related but not the same. They are in the same family of diseases, sort of like SARS and Covid - different varieties of the same virus. EHD is endemic to the Southeast, meaning it is around all the time, every year. But huge outbreaks that hunters notice only occur once every 4-10 years in any given location. Middle TN had the worst EHD out break I've ever seen in 2007. Some locations lost upwards of 80% of the deer population, although 30-50% were more common losses. Hickman, Perry and parts of Houston and Humphreys had another bad outbreak in 2019. Big outbreaks always occur at the tail end of hot dry summers. This is when deer are concentrated around just a few remaining waterholes, where they can all come in contact with an infected population of the midges that transmit the disease. In August and September, these sick deer go to water to cool their fevers, and ponds and creeks can be loaded with dead deer. However, I've noticed die-offs are much heavier in low swampy ground. Often ridge-top properties see little die-off because there's so little stagnant water in these environments, and that is the environment the midges breed in. [/QUOTE]
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