Nearly 100 white-tailed deer have been found dead in the past week in the Grand Forks area of B.C., as government testing has confirmed the presence of epizootic hemorrahgic disease.

The announcement comes the same day the the province shared its plan to stem the spread of another illness among deer — chronic wasting disease — in southeastern B.C.

Epizootic hemorrahgic disease is infectious and fatal to white-tailed deer, mule deer and bighorn sheep, the government says, but is also part of a natural cycle. It is spread by small flies, called midges, and typically requires warmer weather present in late summer and early fall.

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"The outbreak is expected to end when the weather becomes cool and wet, or there is a hard frost," the

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