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 ...

When a volunteer from Antioch Animal Services came into their building and said she saw what appeared to be a sick domesticated ferret on the ground outside in the parking lot, staffers quickly went ...

MINK CAN PASS THE MUTATED VERSION OF COVID BACK TO HUMANS. >> FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS. WISCONSIN'S MAIN LIVESTOCK INDUSTRIES, DAIRY, OF COURSE, ALONG WITH PIGS AND POULTRY, HAVEN'T BEEN HIT BY COVID-19 ...

Ferrets, the weasel-like cousin of minks, were given an experimental COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado last year. The vaccine was administered to endangered black-footed ferrets, which may be vulnerable to ...

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 ...

Pet ferrets are mustelids, related to mink, and there is concern about cross-species infection after a family infected their pet ferret with COVID-19. This concern led British health authorities to ...

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 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — 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 ...