An ongoing EHD outbreak is spreading. It has been confirmed in wild deer in Washington County, and cases are also being reported from northern Waukesha and Ozaukee counties. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources continues to catalogue all reports of potentially impacted deer. 
The DNR is tracking this outbreak through reported sightings of recently deceased deer in the area.

Assembly District 98 State Representative Jim Piwowarczyk told WTKM that according to reports, the disease continues to spread.

"It has just about completely wiped out the deer herd in our area. We are hearing reports now that it's speading north. Dead deer have been found in Fond du Lac County. It will continue to move north until we have our first hard frost."                                     

It’s an acute, infectious, often fatal, viral disease that affects white-tailed deer and other hoofed animals. In Wisconsin, death rates can be much higher.

The disease was diagnosed for the first time in Wisconsin deer in the fall of 2002, when approximately 14 deer were found suddenly dead in Iowa County, according to the DNR. Between 2002 and 2011, blood samples from deer were collected and tested.

Deer in Wisconsin are not routinely exposed to these viruses.  

The viruses that cause the disease do not infect humans.