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EU Calls For Regular Virus Tests On Mink Farms 02/18/21 AT 9:23 AM Europe's mink farms should regularly test their animals for Covid-19 and carry out sequencing until the risk of the virus spreading to humans is eliminated, two EU agencies said Thursday. The European Commission ordered the report following coronavirus outbreaks on mink farms in several European countries in 2020, with confirmed cases of the virus being spread to humans. Its findings recommend "monitoring and surveillance of mink farms...for as long as SARS-CoV-2 exposure from humans to mink cannot be excluded," calling for we...

Scientists revealed that mink in the Netherlands developed a mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus months ago. All the suspected animals were culled, and no humans were affected. However, the same mutation was found on a mink farm in nearby Denmark that researchers...

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A SARS-CoV-2 strain found on a Polish mink farm can be directly transmitted from the animals to humans and vice versa, the Agriculture Ministry has said.

In episode two of The Conversation Weekly podcast we talk to academic experts about the tense situation in Myanmar following a coup in the country. And we meet an American researcher who is part of a team testing wild animals for COVID-19. Protests have rocked Myanmar in recent days as people take to the streets demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de factor leader who was arrested alongside the president, Win Myint, on February 1 when the military seized power. We speak to DB Subedi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England in Australia, who expla...