months, Vargas said. It is also associated with people leaving food and water for animals, which causes unnatural congregations of blacktails and other animals.

Infected deer can suffer from bloody diarrhea that can scour the animal or mouth lesions that keep it from feeding. In some cases, the deer suffer massive internal hemorrhaging discovered only in field necropsies. In other cases, field necropsies revealed a liter or more of liquid in their lungs.

Humans and pets aren't considered vulnerable to the virus. While the adenovirus has similar strains affecting cattle and sheep, there are no known instances of the virus spreading from deer to other species.

Vargas said biologists want to hear from landowners who find dead deer, but agency biologists will not test all the carcasses or remove them.

People whoA change in Major League Baseball commissioners did not alter the view toward Pete Rose’s fitness to be part of the game.

Rob Manfred, who succeeded longtime commissioner Bud Selig in January, has denied Rose's application for reinstatement, informing baseball's all-time hits king on Monday that he will remain on the outside looking in nearly three decades after his ban for gambling on the sport, and issuing a three-page statement that says Rose has fallen far short of rehabilitating his life in a fashion that suggests he could associate with a major league team.

Manfred cited "new evidence" his staff turned up after Manfred decided in April to reexamine Rose's case and ordered a "comprehensive review" of the case, and found further instances of Rose violating baseball's Rule 21 on