In our county and the surrounding counties where I live in Indiana we have been hit by (Epizootic Hemmorhagic Disease) EHD, which is commonly called bluetongue. It is common this time of year and usually gets worse through the summer, especially whenthere is a wet spring and then a dry summer that causes alot of the flooded areas to become stagnant pools where the midge or gnat lives that carries the virus. The midge or gnat bites the deer on the inside of the nose or other vulnerable areas on the deers face which transmitts the disease that causes the deers tongue to swollen. This causes the deers air way to become restricted and makes it difficult to impossible for the deer to drink which is why to will find them dead near some body of water most of the time dead from thirst.