H5N1 bird flu has also been found in grizzly bears in the US, captive mink in Canada and wild dogs in a zoo in the UK. The study, published in the journal Conservation Biology, is based on an ...

He said: “Even one mink can be enough in a colony of nesting birds. We are concentrating on off-shore islands because mink are tough little devils. They are water-based and they swim from ...

While there is currently no evidence that bird flu can spread from fox to fox or otter to otter, “genetic sequencing of the virus from an October 2022 outbreak on a mink farm in Spain suggests ...