| a virus-induced epizootic hemorrhagic disease of the virginia white-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus). | a circumscribed natural outbreak of a highly fatal disease of deer, which we have designated epizootic hemorrhagic disease (ehd), has been studied. the disease has proven readily transmissible in deer but not in other experimental or domestic animals tested, nor in embryonating eggs or deer kidney cell cultures. the causative agent is a virus which is readily filterable and is capable of storage, either frozen or in glycerol, for relatively long periods of time. it produces a solid immunity in t ... | 1960 | 19867168 |