A survey of free-ranging deer in Ireland for serological evidence of exposure to bovine viral diarrhoea virus, bovine herpes virus-1, bluetongue virus and Schmallenberg virus

Table 1 Details of the numbers (%) and species of deer sampled and the counties from which they were collected for Panel 1(top), Panel 2 (bottom) and overall

County	Fallow	Hybrid	Red	Sika	Not recorded	Total
Cork	10	-		-	-	10
Donegal	-	-		1	-	1
Down	6	-		-	-	6
Dublin	-	-		2		2
Fermanagh	1	-	7	21	1	30
Galway	39	-	3	-	3	45
Kerry		-	1	1	-	2
Kildare		-		1	-	1
Kilkenny	1	-		-	-	1
Laois	17	-		-	-	17
Meath	1	-	1		-	2
Offaly	33	-		-	4	37
Sligo	2	-	3		-	5
Tipperary	20	-		1		21
Tyrone	1	-	1	24	1	27
Waterford	7	-	-	-	-	7
Wexford	-	-	1	1		2
Wicklow	-	-	-	38	5	43
Panel 1 total	138 (53.3%)	0 (0%)	17 (6.6%)	90 (34.7%)	14 (5.4%)	259 (100%)
Wicklow	-	1	-	115	7	123
Dublin	-	-	-	8	-	8
Panel 2 total	- (0%)	1 (0.8%)	- (0%)	123 (93.9%)	7 (5.3%)	131 (100%)
Overall total	138 (35.3%)	1 (0.3%)	17 (4.3%)	213 (54.8%)	21 (5.3%)	390 (100%)

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