This year has not been too kind to animals in the US.

Americans have spotted so-called ‘Frankenstein’ rabbits oozing sluglike tentacles from their faces and ‘zombie’ squirrels covered in sores in their back yards in recent months.

Now, social media users in New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, among others, say they’re seeing deer covered in fleshy bubbles.

‘A white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania. But what is the growth? Is it a mole? A boil? An injury?’ asked one Reddit user earlier this month.

Clay Moden, a radio show host at WYRK in Buffalo, uploaded trail camera footage of a deer with ‘some sort of growth on it’ in early August.

Don’t go sprinting to your bunker out of fear we’ve got a Last of Us fungal plague on our hands, though.

The deer are infected with deer cutaneous fibroma,

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