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 ...

Two species of water-loving mammals were once widespread in North Central Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma but their populations declined after human settlement, habitat modifications and a past demand ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...