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as ive been driving to work here in indiana lately ive noticed an extreme number of deer dead by the roadway and off the roadway,i know some may be roadkill but theres so many do you think it could be a disease? what are the signs of these and when do they usually take place?

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No doubt, that would be TDTSOTR disease. To Dumb To Stay Out The Road disease :D.

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Either that ornew tacticsby GM/Chrysler employees/stockholders to drum up business.

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LOL

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With blue tongue they usually end up in water...

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Road kill

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The IDNR has already certified Indiana as being free of CWD for another year, they recently announced this after completing their survey of harvested and road killed carcasses. Blue Tongue is highly unlikely since the weather has been too wet for the pathogen to proliferate. What you're seeing is just road kills, young deer aren't terribly bright, and Spring is when the most road kills occur.

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I agree about the blue tongue, but we have the most road kills in the fall here. I our car/deer accident claims are pretty low right now, but that number will spike when September rolls around.

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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.