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Mink ranching survives in Denmark despite risky COVID-19 mutation

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Danish mink industry was to be liquidated from fear that COVID-19 mutation could neutralize vaccines in development             COPENHAGEN, Denmark––The Danish mink industry,  on the verge of liquidation as of November 4,  2020 to control a COVID-19 coronavirus mutation,  appears to have politically mobilized to win a reprieve––for the mink ranchers,  however,  not the mink […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Horses & Farmed Animals, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife, World Tagged With: Allan Randrup Thomsen, Arnon Shimshony, Francois Balloux, Kare Molbak, Karl Stahl, Merritt Clifton, Mette Frederiksen

Puppies & kittens everywhere, but none in shelters to adopt

May 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Suspension of spay/neuter & intake services due to COVID-19 cuts adoptions by a third from 2019             NEW YORK CITY––Celebrating rehoming every dog and cat in custody soon after COVID-19 shutdowns began,  animal shelters from coast to coast are suddenly––and predictably––weeping,  wailing,  and tearing hair about having no adoptable animals to offer in response to […]

Filed Under: Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Behavior & health, Breeding, Cats, China, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Dogs & cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, India, Indian subcontinent, Population control, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Street dogs, USA Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Bryan Kortis, Katherine Ellen Foley, Matt Bershadker, Merritt Clifton, Ruth Steinberger

“That touch of mink” & COVID-19: Dutch outbreak hints mink may be host

May 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Fur farming to end in The Netherlands by 2024 WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands––The discovery that ranched mink can become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus may lend momentum to the Dutch national plan to phase out mink farming entirely by 2024. Concern that mink themselves might become a COVID-19 reservoir may also dampen Chinese enthusiasm for rebuilding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, China, Denmark, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Carola Schouten, Doris Day, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Soren Alexandersen, Teresa Telecky

Deadly Wuhan coronavirus may be pangolin’s best friend

February 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Pangolins carry a 99% identical coronavirus,  report Chinese scientists             GUANGZHOU, China––Will the Wuhan coronavirus,  newly linked to pangolins,  save one of the world’s most endangered animals? Headlines over the weekend of February 8-9,  2020 amplified global panic that the number of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus deaths had soared beyond the 2003 toll from severe acute […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Asia, Asia/Pacific, China, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Meat issues, Poaching & trafficking, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Cyranoski, Merritt Clifton, Shen Yongyi, Xiao Lihua, Zhang Jinshuo

Rabies plummets in India while “experts” ignore the data

June 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Global Alliance for Rabies Control still says there are at least 120 times more rabies deaths than found by 14 years of annual body counts          NEW DELHI––New national rabies survey data from the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence,  the Indian equivalent of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, shows for the 15th […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Breeding, Dog attacks, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Politics, Population control, Rabies, Science, Street dogs Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, David Semple, Eskild Petersen, M.K. Sudarshan, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, William Harvey

Philippine mad dogs claim deadly revenge for being eaten

April 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Eradicating rabies requires ending dog-eating too          CAUAYAN,  Philippines––For the second time in three years a rabies outbreak linked to eating dogs has hit the western Philippines,  underscoring the importance of ending dog meat consumption if canine rabies is to be eradicated. The rabies outbreak was declared by the Negros Occidental provincial department of health […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cambodia, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating dogs, Food, India, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Meat issues, Myanmar, Pacific rim, Philippines, Rabies, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Thailand, Uses of dogs, Vietnam Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Basilio Ponce, Merritt Clifton, Ponciano Deogoro, Ressia Mae Edoria, Rolando Carmelita Jr., Tin Tin Myaing

Why the Oregon Zoo euthanized Packy the elephant

February 11, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Antibiotic-resistant asymptomatic TB strain had epidemic potential          PORTLAND,  Oregon––Oregon Zoo veterinary staff on February 9,  2017 euthanized Packy,  54,  the oldest male elephant in the U.S.,  after a multi-year losing battle against an antibiotic-resistant strain of the lung disease tuberculosis which had already killed two other Oregon Zoo elephants and infected seven zoo staff […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Circuses, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Southeast Asia, Spectacles, Thailand, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Ed Stewart, Marilyn Kroplick, Merritt Clifton, Pat Derby, Toni Frohoff

Pigs investigated as possible Ebola vectors

September 3, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Pigs can get Ebola,  but do they spread it? KAMPALA,  Uganda;  NAIROBI,  Kenya––Domestic pigs may already be among the vectors transmitting deadly Ebola viruses to humans,  though no one knows for sure yet,  warns a five-member International Livestock Research Institute team in a soon-to-be-published edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The […]

Filed Under: Africa, Africa, African species, Chimps & other primates, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Kenya, Lab animals, Liberia, Lithuania, Live markets, Live transport, Meat issues, Pigs, Poaching & trafficking, Russia, Science, Slaughter, Sub-Saharan, Uganda, Ukraine, Wildlife Tagged With: African swine fever, Arnon Shimshony, Christine Atherstone, International Livestock Research Institute, Merritt Clifton, PED, ProMED-mail

Did botched pre-Ramadan sheep shipment start an epidemic?

June 2, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

Georgian officials deny disease outbreak ever occurred TBILISI, Georgia––How many sheep were casualties of a botched pre-Ramadan live transport from the nation of Georgia to Saudi Arabia and Jordan in late May 2015? The authentic toll might never be known. Exported for ritual sacrifice, the sheep instead fell ill in transit, were refused at several ports, […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Cattle & dairy, Central Asia, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Middle Left, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Islam, Religion & philosophy, Sheep & goats Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Eid, Feast of Atonement, Lyn White, Merritt Clifton, Ramadan

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