Massachusetts Disease of Deer Archive - Massachusetts
White-Tailed Deer Serum Kills the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi 2023 Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
... White-tailed deer (WTD) are considered to be noncompetent reservoirs for B. burgdorferi... we demonstrated that WTD serum effectively kills B. burgdorferi. The borreliacidal activity of WTD serum likely contributes to the inability of WTD to efficiently harbor and transmit B. burgdorferi...
COVID-19 found in 15% of Massachusetts deer tested March 17, 2022 WGBH
... Of the 558 Massachusetts deer tested so far, COVID-19 antibodies were discovered in 86 samples. While deer-to-human transmission has only happened in one documented case ... It's extremely unlikely that most people could be infected by a deer. Any deer-to-human transmission would likely happen through the air ...
Mass. is monitoring white-tailed deer for COVID. Here's why January 11, 2022 Massachusetts, WBUR
... Massachusetts is now one of 41 states participating in a national effort to study the prevalence of the virus in deer... "We do know that at this point, every place that [deer] have been tested, there have been antibodies found," ...
Moose may be infected with winter ticks in Franklin County March 8, 2021 Massachusetts, WWLP
... The Northeast United States, in a bad year, they’ve documented 70 to 80 percent mortality in moose calves off of a bad winter tick year...
New breakthrough may help cure prion disease May 6, 2020 Massachusetts, News Medical
... fatal diseases caused by prions - chronic wasting disease in deer ... if you catch it early enough, if you pull out one side of the square, the amyloid structure can't double. Chaperones prevent the disease by preventing it from doubling in that first round... In a new paper in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology by Tricia Serio ...
State Biologists Narrow Cause of Mysterious Deer Paralysis March 10, 2020 Massachusetts, The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News
... six fawns ... were found paralyzed ... state biologists have been able to narrow their investigation to a specific type of chemical present in medicated livestock and poultry supplements. ... Monensin ...
Officials warn upcoming deer mating season creates hazard for drivers October 31, 2019 Massachusets, Boston 25 News
... We have around 95-100,000 deer in the state but similar to the way the people population is in Massachusetts it's more densely populated in the eastern part of the state," ..,
Deer Crossing Issue Ignored in 40B Project January 26, 2012 Massachusetts, Wanderer
“Loss of wildlife habitat isn't a consideration in the Wetlands Protection Act, so we are not addressing that issue (deer crossing),” said Sean Hale, of Epsilon Associates, representing Bay Watch Realty Trust ... Members of the conservation commission asked the Bay Watch applicant representatives about the long standing, centuries old wildlife crossing which takes place from the Washburn Park area ...
Invincible Deer? March 25, 2015 Massachusetts, Massachusetts News
... a driver struck a deer with his car... Animal Control arrived and quickly determined the deer didn’t need to be put down ... so the animal control officer just stayed in the area and kept an eye on the deer for at least a half an hour before deciding to just let it go on it’s way unmolested...