The United States Department of Agriculture found the case while screening wildlife around fur farms with coronavirus outbreaks After thousands of minks at fur farms in Wisconsin, Michigan and Utah ...

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have found coronavirus infections in pet cats and dogs and in multiple zoo animals, including big cats and gorillas. These infections have even ...

The survey did not conclude how the wild mink became infected with the virus, but it’s not unusual for captive minks to escape fur farms. (Infected mink not pictured.) Photo Credit: Jim Barney / USFWS ...

ANTIOCH, Calif. (KRON) — An unexpected furry creature showed up at the Antioch Police Department in need of help. An American mink was found behind the police station earlier this month. The mink ...

Each year thousands of minks escape from Danish fur farms, and with 5 percent of the farm minks infected with COVID-19, this means there could be hundreds of the diesease-carriers in the wild.

The USDA has been carrying out screenings of species around mink farms in Utah, Michigan and Wisconsin for several months over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic to determine if the virus has spread ...

A wild American mink in Utah has tested positive for the coronavirus — the first wild animal found to be infected with the virus, researchers say. The wild mink was infected with a variant of the ...

Since early this summer, Keith Poulsen, the director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, was worried about mink. Poulsen’s lab is part of a national network of veterinary labs that work ...

An Oregon mink trapped in the wild tested positive for the coronavirus this month, the Oregon Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The mink was captured Dec. 13 near an Oregon mink farm that ...

The novel coronavirus has been detected in a wild mink trapped near a Utah mink farm that had an outbreak, the first instance of the disease in a wild animal. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

A wild mink in Utah is the first free-ranging native animal anywhere to test positive for COVID-19. It was found and tested near an infected fur farm, and that has some national groups raising alarms.

After thousands of minks at fur farms in Wisconsin, Michigan and Utah died due a series of coronavirus outbreaks in October, the United States Department of Agriculture has found the first known case ...