Wisconsin’s mink farming industry now seen at risk of COVID Follow Us
Question of the Day By KATE GOLDEN of Wisconsin Watch - Associated Press - Saturday, February 6, 2021
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The first sign of trouble was that the mink stopped eating, said Hugh Hildebrandt, one of two main mink vets in Wisconsin. Next came coughing and sneezing, lethargy and labored breathing. Hildebrandt had worked with mink for 30 years. He wrote the Merck Veterinary Manual section on mink. But he had never seen anything like this.
Captive mink have a flu season in the fall, just like people - they get it from us, in fact. But what appeared in the two Taylor County, Wisconsin, mink farms that saw outbreaks in October was not flu, which tends to sicken the weakest animals. This took out the strongest mink, the mature adult females.
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One theme of the conversation at the NC Local News Summit on Jan. 13 was Brothers Gibb basic: Stayin’ alive.
Fran Scarlett of INN summed it up: Journalism is the mission, but “you have to be sustainable to get to do the journalism.”
The good news: Resources are out there to help. Below are my takeaways from two more of the speakers at the summit (the full event video is here):