Social News – COVID-19

Pets & Animals

The Netherlands is the world’s fourth biggest fur farmer after China, Denmark and Poland. Spain is the seventh largest European producer. (article)

COVID-19 outbreaks have been reported in fur farms in the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Italy and the USA, and millions of animals have had to be culled. (article)

“Global pressure to end the farming of wild species.” (article)

USDA list of Animals affected by COVID-19:

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/sa_one_health/sars-cov-2-animals-us

Is treatment of the minks (mass death) paving the way of dealing with other species at risk of coronavirus? (Setup for predictive programming?) (Instead of Wuhan bats, blame minks?)

Zoo animals vaccinated with experimental COVID-19 vaccines from Zoetis (formerly Pfizer) (article)

News – Pets & Animals

Date	Source	Title	Comment
2022-06	Comment	12,000 cattle drop dead (Kansas) (Reuters fact check article)	- Todd Callendar notes that the cattle had been given vaccine containing hydrogel (source [1:10:00])
2022-01-20	Toronto Sun	Underground railroad emerges to thwart Hong Kong hamster massacre	Washington Post - COVID
2022-01-12	CBC News	Deadly avian flu spreads to 2nd Newfoundland location	- H5N1 not COVID
2021-12-02	CBC.ca	Virus that causes COVID-19 found in Quebec deer	Jaela Bernstien
2021-10-23	GuardianTV (USA)	Next up for their Covid-19 shots: Skunks and other animals at a Florida zoo	Michigan-based veterinary pharmaceutical company Zoetis
2021-10-21	CTV News	The Toronto Zoo is planning to vaccinate its animals against COVID-19	Abby Neufeld
2021-10-20	ca.sports.yahoo.com (USA	Cincinnati Zoo administers COVID-19 vaccine for 80 animals – from giraffes to great apes	Wyatte Grantham-Philips
2021-10-12	ky3.com (USA)	Rare snow leopard dies after showing signs of COVID-19	Debra Dolan (article)
2021-09-29	tigerdroppings.com (USA)	BREC Zoo: Burreaux the Giraffe died of anaphylactic shock	rt3 (article)
2021-08-10	cbssports.com (USA)	LSU’s live tiger mascot, Mike VII, is fully vaccinated against COVID-19	second dose 6-Aug-2021 zoetis
2021-07-29	aphis.usda.gov (USA)	SARS-CoV-2 in Animals in the United States
2021-07-15	wbrz.com (USA)	As zoos begin to vaccinate some animals, Baton Rouge Zoo holds off, wants more data
2021-07-03	nbcnews.com (USA)	California zoo animals receive experimental Covid vaccine
2021-06-07	independent.co.uk (INDIA)	Asiatic lioness becomes first animal to die from Covid in India	Vishwam Sankaran
2021-05-19	Globe and Mail (BC)	B.C. mink farm in quarantine after animal tests positive for COVID-19
2021-05-14	CTV News	Danes start digging up minks to prevent water pollution	Associated Press BBC News
2021-04-01	BBC News	Covid: Will your pet need a coronavirus vaccine?
2021-02-24	National Geographic	What the mink COVID-19 outbreaks taught us about pandemics	Dina Fine Maron
2021-02-04	Newsweek (Amplify)	9 Signs Your Cat Has COVID-19 and What to Do About It (sponsored article)
2021-01-24	Business Insider (India)	First confirmed case of COVID-19 in pet reported in South Korea	- kitten
2021-01-03	Bitchute / Fearless Nation	Pigs Catch COVID – UK Bans Free Range Chickens! – War on Meat / Animal Ag	IceAgeFarmer.com
2020-12-29	USA Today	Mink infected with mutated coronavirus strain escaped from Oregon farm afflicted by COVID-19 outbreak
2020-11-18	theguardian.com	Covid-19 mink variants discovered in humans in seven countries	Sophie Kevany, Tom Carstensen
2020-11-09	BBC	What’s the science behind mink and coronavirus?	Helen Briggs
2020-11-06	AlJazeera	Denmark finds 214 people with mink-related coronavirus	“found mink-related strands of the novel coronavirus in 214 people since June”
2020-11-06	Forbes.com	More Than 200 People Catch Mink-Related Covid-19 In Denmark Since June, Prompting World Health Organization To Investigate	Robert Hart
2020-11-06	BBC News	Coronavirus and mink: What are the implications?	Helen Briggs - “genetic changes in the virus they say might undermine the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines currently in development.”
2020-11-06	NBCnews.com	Denmark vows to kill millions of minks even after WHO downplays Covid mutation risk	Adela Suliman
2020-11-06	USnews.com / Thomson Reuters	WHO Looks at Mink Farm Biosecurity Globally After Danish Coronavirus Cases	Emma Farge, Kate Kelland Denmark’s State Serum Institute, which deals with infectious diseases, said a mutated strain of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus had been found in 12 people and on 5 mink farms.
2020-11-06	Apnews.com	North Denmark in lockdown over mutated virus in mink farms	Jan M. Olsen Only people with so-called “critical functions” such as police and health officials and different authorities are being permitted to cross municipal boundaries.
2020-11-05	RT.com	Over 3,000 mink dead from coronavirus at animal farm in Wisconsin	Utah and Michigan as well.
2020-11-05	News.sky.com	Coronavirus: Millions of mink to be culled after passing COVID mutation to humans
2020-11-05	EcoWatch / Olivia Rosane	Denmark To Kill up To 17 Million Farmed Mink To Stop Coronavirus Mutation	Olivia Rosane
2020-10-09	Nbcnews.com	Nearly 10,000 minks die after Covid-19 outbreak at Utah fur farms	Wilson Wong Respiratory distress = COVID-19
2020-09-26	Farming Independent	US funds $1m research project studying COVID-19 in US beef supply chain	Reuters
2020-07-17	Theguardian.com	A million mink culled in Netherlands and Spain amid Covid-19 fur farming havoc	Sophie Kevany
2020-05-21	National Geographic	Did a mink just give the coronavirus to a human? Here’s what we know.	Dina Fine Maron
2020-05-10	Independent.co.uk	Coronavirus fears as China plans to protect vast mink and fox fur industry from backlash at wildlife trade	Jane Dalton
2020-04-28	E&E News	Day of reckoning dawns for industrial livestock farms	Marc Heller

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