{"id":626718,"date":"2026-09-25T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626718\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:58:09","slug":"hemorrhagic-disease-confirmed-in-deer-on-flathead-indian-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626718\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemorrhagic disease confirmed in deer on Flathead Indian Reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POLSON, Mont. \u2014 Wildlife officials confirmed hemorrhagic disease, or EHD, was responsible for a number of white-tailed deer deaths across the Flathead Indian Reservation.<\/p>\n<p>The disease was confirmed in deer around Polson, Ronan, St. Ignatius and Hot Springs.<\/p>\n<p>EHD is transmitted by biting midges, which are most active in late summer and early fall and are commonly found near water sources.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes said EHD is not contagious to humans, but can affect deer and elk.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlife officials said outbreaks are typically short-lived and localized, with cases expected to decline after the first few frosts of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said people did not need to report additional dead deer suspected of having EHD in areas where the disease has already been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>However, suspected cases in new areas of the reservation can be reported to CSKT Wildlife by email at Wildlife@cskt.org or by calling 406-275-2774.<\/p>\n<p>CSKT wildlife staff continue to monitor the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POLSON, Mont. \u2014 Wildlife officials confirmed hemorrhagic disease, or EHD, was responsible for a number of white-tailed deer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-626718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}