As Finland continues to grapple with a record-setting avian flu outbreak on at least five mink farms, resulting in the slaughter of tens of thousands of animals, scientists again warn that the H5N1 ...

Denmark, the world's largest producer of mink furs, plans to cull all mink in the country to contain a mutated form of novel coronavirus. Friday, November 6, 2020 Denmark, the world's largest producer ...

U.S. agencies have confirmed cases of the virus that causes COVID-19 at a mink farm in Oregon. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Service Laboratory tested 10 samples submitted ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch mink farms have begun a government-ordered cull amid concern that animals infected with coronavirus could transmit the illness to humans. Infected mink have been found on ...

COPENHAGEN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A new, mutated strain of the novel coronavirus stemming from mink farms in Denmark is "most likely" extinct, the health ministry said on Thursday, amid fears the new ...

The Danish government has ordered the country's mink farms to cull over 1 million mink due to a series of Covid-19 outbreaks among the animals. The Danish government has ordered the country's mink ...

Washington, DC—Today, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), joined by 46 public health scientists, veterinarians, animal welfare and conservation organizations, and other experts in their respective ...

Health officials believe four Michigan residents infected with a coronavirus strain linked to minks are the first known animal to-human COVID-19 cases in the U.S., the Detroit Free Press reported ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) commends today’s filing of the Mink Facility Disease Prevention Act in Illinois, which would protect public health and human safety by requiring ...