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.

Animals should not be mistreated simply because they evolved a hide that is coveted by some humans for fashion. Mink are wild creatures meant to run, swim, hunt, construct dens, raise their young, and ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said a wild mink had tested positive around an infected mink farm in Utah. Coronavirus outbreaks at fur farms in the US and in Europe have killed thousands ...

An unlimited mink hunting may cope with the risks, Director of the Institute of Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone (the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch) told TASS. It was more ...

“These mink survive and thrive in the wild. Mink are native to North American and they are genetically wild. They do survive in the wild,” Buddenburg said. Buddenberg served two years in ...

Farmed mink in Europe are understood to have contracted HPAI from wild birds and then rapidly infected each other with the virus. “Fur factory farms pose a clear biosecurity risk to Oregonians and the ...

“We’re asking state wildlife regulators to do their job and take the action necessary to ensure that infected mink don’t spread this deadly virus to wild animals.” Mink are members of the mustelid ...