What happens inside the lungs before COVID-19 symptoms appear? Research in mink offers a rare window into the early stages of ...

The U.S., the Netherlands, Denmark and Spain have all reported coronavirus outbreaks on mink farms. Dzīvnieku brīvība via Flickr Commons under CC BY 2.0 The government of Denmark announced that it ...

Up to 8,000 mink are on the loose in Pennsylvania, and residents are being encouraged to stay away from them. Pennsylvania State Police troopers say someone cut holes in the fence of the Richard Stahl ...

Denmark began the unpleasant task of exhuming millions of mink Thursday to safeguard nearby waters from contamination by poorly-dug graves of mink culled last year to prevent the spread of mutant ...

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 ...

Concerns about vaccines may be overblown. Yet, if the virus gains a stronghold in animals, it will become even harder to control Sarah Newey is a Global Health Security correspondent at The Telegraph, ...