The call came in late August to a wildlife hotline: a dead deer near a pond close to Washington Dulles International Airport. Justin Folks, a deer project leader for the Virginia Department of ...

Authorities in the UK say they are "closely monitoring" the spread of a disease that can be deadly to cattle. More than 150 outbreaks of epizootic haemorrhagic disease (EHD) have been recorded in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has received reports of more than 120 probable cases of epizootic hemorrhagic disease ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Sobering news today from ABC Science Online, via Discovery.com: An epizootic—the ...

Mathematical modeling reveals how fleas with early-stage Yersinia pestis infections are insufficient to drive epizootic outbreaks but can help promote a low level of enzootic plague. Plague primarily ...

Several dead deer with no apparent physical trauma have been reported to Newtown police over the past week, according to Police Chief Tom Synan. What happened to the deer isn't certain yet, but ...

Scientists have long been puzzled how the bubonic plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis, can cause both stable, enzootic disease among rodents, as well as sudden, lethal epizootic outbreaks that decimate ...