Medicating Key Deer against screwworm at National Key Deer Refuge

A small deer visits a feeder while another grazes in the background.

Photo By/Credit

Kate Watts/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

12/21/2021

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

A Key Deer gets a dose of anti-parasitic topical medication as it feeds at National Key Deer Refuge in Florida after an outbreak of screwworm in 2017.

Facility

National Key Deer Refuge

Ecosystem

Coastal

Species

Odocoileus virginianus clavium

Subject tags

Disasters

Diseases

Endangered and/or Threatened species

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