Enlarge / A curious pair of black-footed ferret kits survey the shortgrass prairie from their outdoor enclosures at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in Colorado. (credit: Ryan Moehring | US Fish and Wildlife Service (CC BY-2.0)) In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for humans, a group of […]
Expand (charge: Eric Sonstroem / Flickr) Did anybody have”mink farms” in their 2020 disaster bingo cards? It ends up the SARS-CoV-2 virus easily spreads into mink, resulting in outbreaks on mink farms at Europe along with that the United States. Denmark reacted by culling its whole mink people, which obviously went wrong because mink bodies […]
Expand / A mink is photographed at a farm at Hjoerring, at North Jutland, Denmark, on October 8, 2020. (charge: Getty | MADS CLAUS RASMUSSEN) A genetic form of this pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, located in mink has spread by the critters to 12 individuals in Denmark,” the prime minister stated in a press conference Wednesday. […]