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Drought Increases Worry of EHD
By Cash Lambert, OutdoorChannel.com
For deer, the drought has become a life or death proposition; real survival of the fittest … but even some of the fittest could still perish.
Spanning from the ash-filled forests in Colorado to the cracked topsoil in Iowa, the drought of 2012 is creating exasperating repercussions for wildlife, which can result in disease and death that could grow at an alarming rate.
“The situation is ripe for a catastrophic case of EHD (Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease),” said Mark Drury, host of Drury Outdoors Wildlife Obsession. “Nature is going to take its course, and I fear what the outcome will be.”
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