The first known case of coronavirus in a wild animal has been reported, leading to calls for widespread monitoring of wildlife. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said a wild mink had tested ...

Last year in September animal activists released thousands of ... “These mink survive and thrive in the wild. Mink are native to North American and they are genetically wild.

A wild mink in Utah was the first wild animal in the U.S. found with COVID-19. Credit: Peter Trimming via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA ...

A mink in Utah has become the first wild animal to catch COVID-19, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Monday. In the US, the virus has killed more than 15,000 farmed mink since August ...

Mink have been bred in captivity for only a century or so—compared to thousands of years for truly domesticated animals. Thus, in instinct and temperament, farmed mink are still essentially wild ...

Mink, like their relatives, ferrets, are susceptible to respiratory viruses This is a very unusual chain of events: a virus that originally came from a wild animal, probably a bat, jumped into ...

COVID-19 has been found in pets, zoo animals and in a wild mink in Utah. Monitoring wildlife for COVID-19 is important for animals and humans, both of whom face risks from a jumping virus.

Farmed mink peeking out of its nest box (Truth About Fur) Since it was learned that COVID-19 can pass from humans to mink, farmers in the United States have put in place strict biosecurity protocols ...

ROCKEFELLER TOWNSHIP, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A mink farm in Northumberland ... that is supporting the suspects. Confining wild animals in tiny cages for their entire lives to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now confirmed four cases of humans infected with a variant of the coronavirus originating in farmed mink during an outbreak in Eaton County, Michigan ...

The Minneapolis City Council adopted a new code last year that prohibits fur stores in the city. This decision follows ...

Last month animal rights activists released approximately 2,000 mink and vandalized fur farms in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. Michael Whelan, the executive director of Fur Commission USA ...