Foot and Mouth Disease Over 1 million livestock have been slaughtered in England to control the spread of the animal virus responsible for foot and mouth disease. The virus infects cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, water buffalo, Cape buffalo and white-tailed deer. Four died, those that survived shed virus for 4 weeks and one shed virus for 11 weeks. Therefore, whitetails figure prominently in the maintenance of this disease if it were to be introduced into free-ranging deer. Papers describing poisoning of pintail ducks and Canada geese feeding in shot-fall zones and the relative immobile nature of lead in such areas were published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases , Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology and the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology .
Preliminary findings suggest no such movement is occurring.
These findings will be incorporated into the Division's best management practices for hunter education ranges. Sentinel birds used to monitor West Nile virus activity in New Jersey include crows, hawks and falcons submitted through municipal and county health departments to the State Department of Health . Cooper's hawks submitted for testing were positive for West Nile Virus. All were negative. The wildlife pathologist is a member of the New Jersey interagency West Nile Virus Working Group.