Back in 2000 I was hunting the Lauderdale County WMA in Northwest Alabama and my buddy happened to get a Deer that morning, and as we left and headed for the Ranger/Checkout Station another hunter pulled up with what looked like a nice 10 Pointer, as we approached his trailer we saw the Ugliest Deer you could have laid eyes on, this Deer had patches of wart like growths from one end of its body to the other, I mean I don't think you could have laid a ruller on this animal anywhere without it touching a patch of these growths I had never seen anything like it before or since, I asked the Rangers about it and their answer was, it is a wart like virus that seems to be very popular in Deer and they assured me it in noway was dangerous to humans nor would it affect the quality of the meat. Well I'm sorry, "dangerous to humans- affect the meat" I couldn't care less I would have killed it just to cull it from the heard, but their ain't no way on Gods green earth I would have even considered eating that deer. I only wish I had a camera at the time we saw it, now I never go hunting without a camera in my pack, Ya know for those "Kodak moments" we always seem to miss out on.