Not tonight deer: A new birth control vaccine helps reduce urban deer damage
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
A new birth control vaccine for white-tailed deer -- a growing nuisance in urban areas for gardens and landscaping -- eliminates the dangerous reproductive behavior behind the annual autumn surge in automobile-deer collisions. The vaccine, just becoming commercially available in some states, was the topic of a report here today at the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).