After yesterday’s announcement from the Oregon Department of Health that deer droppings were the culprit in the strawberry E. coli outbreak that has sickened 14 and killed one in Oregon, I got this email:

Looks like Bambi could use a good Deer Lawyer (Clarence Deerow?)

It got me thinking about the number of deer/elk related E. coli outbreaks over the last several years. Here is the growing list with references in the downloadable PDF:

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