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Malignant catarrhal fever in deer

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Malignant catarrhal fever in deer

Malignant catarrhal fever in deer is incurable and invariably fatal, and if diagnosed the animal should be put down as soon as possible to prevent further suffering. It is probably contracted from sheep, so deer and sheep should never be grazed together. This red deer stag shows typical discharges from the eyes and nose.

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Gary Clark, Neville Grace and Ken Drew, Diseases of sheep, cattle and deer – Infectious and parasitic diseases of deer, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17527/malignant-catarrhal-fever-in-deer (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gary Clark, Neville Grace and Ken Drew, published 1 March 2009.