Deer across the US were recently spotted with tumor-like growths located on their bodies.
The news comes just days after the same was seen across the bodies of rabbits and squirrels, as well as other animals displaying signs of widespread disease.
From the Northeast to the Pacific Northwest, pictures were shared across social media to document the cases of these strange bubbles growing all over the local deer, including faces and legs.
Over the last two months, people continued to photograph the deformed deer in New York, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Wildlife officials were quick to identify the condition as a deer cutaneous fibroma, which is better known as deer warts.
This kind of condition is usually due to a virus that’s transmitted between deer in all parts of America, and experts continue to warn that it’s spreading this summer.
The virus is mostly spread through disease-carrying insects such as mosquitoes and ticks, which keep on passing on the blood of the infected deer to healthy animals that live nearby.
Since these potentially deadly pests keep breeding and multiplying in warm weather, Americans are being cautioned that they will see more of the condition wherever deer might be present. As per the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, papillomas are mostly seen during the late summer and in the fall season, usually due to a rise in biting insect activity during this part of the year.