Scientists looking at other animals that can contract Covid-19
Researchers are looking at how to limit infections in other species of animal in order to prevent a reservoir of the Covid-19 disease in the future.
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Better sanitation and hygiene at China’s wet markets
COMMENT ON NEWS: Wuhan in China, the alleged source of the coronavirus is thriving and humming along nicely, we are told. Everything is pretty well back to normal and everywhere is packed out with people, as normal. Good for them because the rest of the …
UK government wants to kill 70,000 more badgers and undermine their pledge
The UK government pledged to move away from culling badgers to vaccinating them against TB. It is believed that badgers transmit tuberculosis to cattle. Controversially they are shot in their many tens of thousands in the UK and animal advocates don’t like it. I think …
Protecting nature protects people by minimising zoonotic disease carrying animals
It pays to protect nature. It pays because the better you protect nature the less likelihood there is of people being infected by a zoonotic disease. This is because the kinds of animals that thrive in landscapes degredaded by people (human habitats effectively) are more …
Confusion as to whether dogs can become infected with Covid-19
Covid-19 is said by CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) in America to infect cats and dogs and a few other types of animal. Twelve days ago an online newspaper reported that a dog in Tarrant County had been confirmed as infected with Covid-19. …
Covid-19: Farmed mink infected by farmworkers who in turn were infected by the mink
All 93,000 mink at a farm in Aragon, Spain are to be slaughtered under a government order after 80% of a sample were found to be infected. The wife of a worker at the farm in La Puebla de Valverde, 125 miles east of Madrid, …
Great photographs of Shango a lowland gorilla being tested for Covid-19
Shango is 31 years of age and a 433 pounds gorilla living at Zoo Miami. He got into a fight with his younger brother Barney, 26, which left him injured. Normally apes do stand-off posturing rather than actually hurting each other. The veterinary staff at …
Hundreds of elephants are dying in Botswana. The beginnings of another viral pandemic?
Northern Botswana has been a good home for elephants. However, an aerial survey on May 25 of this year told wildlife researchers that a mysterious illness had stricken them. They counted 196 carcasses of elephants across the landscape. There was no clue as to their …
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