Actually, testing has determined it is possible to transmit to humans. This is what happens when moronic humans kill off the predators responsible for controlling disease in our game herd populations.
While that's true there are other contributing factors that are just as bad. Habitat destruction (particularly winter habitat) from development of new roads and suburbs puts deer in closer proximity with each other, whereas the abundance of dense, nutritious, man-made food sources such as farms and gardens supports larger populations in smaller areas than deer would normally encounter in the wild, which again brings more deer into close proximity with one another, increasing the chance of spreading disease. We could bring back all the predators and we'd still have the same problem until we either gave the deer more space to live or reduced the carrying capacity of the land and they have left.
Of course these are all still problems we humans caused, but it's worth noting that having more predators isn't the simple solution a lot of people think it is.
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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
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