2020 has been an unpredictable year, but it’s safe to say that even the most cynical doomsday preppers didn’t anticipate checking off “dead, coronavirus-infected mink rising from their graves” from ...

After talking about two birds that are generally unmistakable, I wanted to switch gears this week and take a closer look at a mammal that seems to lead to more annual misidentifications than any other ...

Mikayla Raines, is the founder of Save A Fox Rescue, located in central Minnesota and on December 12 she posted an incredible video of one of the many animals she has rescued from the cruel and ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been documented in several mammalian species besides humans, including cats, dogs, and mink. A form of the angiotensin-converting ...

‘Vet-virologist’ Anna Fagre discusses the first positive case detected in the wild — and how ‘spillover’ could impact the West. A mink farm in Oregon, photographed in 2015. In December, a mink ...

DEPLOYING A TEAM IT TO MAKE SURE THE OUTBREAK IS CONTAINED. >> THERE ARE DOZENS OF FARMS LIKE THIS IN WISCONSIN, AND ONE NEAR MEDFORD IS DEALING WITH THE COVID 19 OUTBREAK. LATE LAST WEEK, ONE ...

More than 100 SARS-CoV-2 infected mink may have escaped from Danish fur farms, raising the risk that these escapees could spread the novel coronavirus to wild animals, creating a new reservoir for the ...

A Stony Brook company whose human COVID-19 vaccine was repurposed to treat cats has pivoted to a more promising animal market: mink farms. Applied DNA Sciences Inc. expects to begin the new animal ...

As coronavirus tears through the world’s mink farms, the pandemic is accelerating the shuttering of a controversial industry. Earlier this month, the Danish government ordered the country’s mink farms ...

The U.S., the Netherlands, Denmark and Spain have all reported coronavirus outbreaks on mink farms. Dzīvnieku brīvība via Flickr Commons under CC BY 2.0 The government of Denmark announced that it ...

On Feb. 11, the Oregon Department of Agriculture lifted the quarantine on the Oregon mink farm previously affected by COVID-19. Three mink from two fur farms in the Netherlands tested positive for ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle for the first time in the United States in March, with nine states reporting outbreaks by May. While the method of transmission ...