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

 

 

See also:

 

AO COVID-19 - What Do Doctors Say?

 

 

AO COVID-19 - What Do Lawyers Say?

 

 

 

 

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