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Wildlife disease
Wildlife disease
Report diseased wildlife online
Diseased wildlife can also be reported by calling 517-336-5030.
Select a disease from the list of wildlife diseases for a description, where it is found, how it is transmitted and develops, clinical signs, and how it is treated and controlled.
Wildlife diseases
- Abscesses
- Aspergillosis
- Avian Influenza (Influenza A Virus, Bird Flu)
- Avian Pox
- Bear Filarial Worm
- Blackhead
- Botulism (Limberneck)
- Bovine Tuberculosis
- Brainworm
- Brucellosis
- Canine and Feline Distemper
- Chronic Wasting Disease
- Corn Toxicity in Ruminants (Deer and Elk)
- Cysticercosis
- DDT And Other Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Pesticides
- Deer Fibroma
- Deer Liver Fluke
- Deer Nose Bots
- Duck Virus Enteritis
- Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE)
- Echinococcosis
- Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in White-Tailed Deer
- Fowl Cholera
- Heartworm
- Hydrocyst
- Lead Poisoning
- Leptospirosis
- Leucocytozoonosis
- Lyme Disease
- Malnutrition and Starvation
- Mange
- Mercury Poisoning
- Mycoplasmosis
- North American Guinea Worm
- Oil Intoxication
- Organophosphate Toxicity
- Proventricular or Stomach Worm
- Rabbit Fibromatosis
- Rabies
- Raccoon Roundworm (Baylisascaris)
- Roundworms
- Salmonellosis
- Sarcocystosis
- Squirrel Pox
- Strychnine Poisoning
- Taenia Hydatigena
- Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii)
- Trichomoniasis
- Tularemia
- Tyzzer's Disease
- Verminous Hemorrhagic Ulcerative Enteritis
- Warbles
- West Nile Virus
- White-nose syndrome
- Zinc Phosphide
Wildlife diseases of special concern
Common afflictions by species
We do not recommend eating any animal that acted sick prior to harvest. If abnormal appearing internal or external features are noticed on the animal after harvest, most hunters find these animals aesthetically displeasing and choose not to consume them.