There was shock last week when Denmark decided to cull all its mink - up to 17 million animals - because of the spread of coronavirus. That national cull has turned into a political outcry ...

Mutations in coronavirus have triggered culls of millions of farmed mink in Denmark. Part of the country has been put under lockdown after Danish authorities found genetic changes they say might ...

Denmark isn't alone in its sacrifice of mink to protect humans from the coronavirus. The Netherlands, Spain, and Ireland are culling to curb outbreaks too, signalling what could be the beginning ...

After the first outbreak of COVID-19 earlier this month, the SPCA called for a moratorium on mink farming in B.C. through the immediate suspension of all mink farm licences. Denmark, the world’s ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter today urging the Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Health Authority to investigate the threat of COVID-19 outbreaks and ...

This is the editor's letter in the current issue of The Week magazine. Denmark is beating COVID. The Danish government recently announced the virus is no longer a "critical threat" there ...

Denmark's health authorities decided Friday that no fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine is to be applied and that there was no need for a booster dose to those aged under 18, thanks to the high level ...

The importance of preventing and tracking coronavirus outbreaks at Oregon mink operations is highlighted by the fact that COVID-19 transmission between humans and mink in Denmark have resulted in ...

B.C. has confirmed that mink at a COVID-19 outbreak site in the province have tested positive for the coronavirus. Fraser Health declared an outbreak on December 6 at an unspecified mink farm in ...