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Police said McCoy and Sellers admitted to him shooting the ferret in the garage of the residence due to the ferret being “sick,” the affidavit said.
A U.S.-based animal rights group has pledged US$50,000 to help any ferrets rescued from a breeding mill in southwestern Manitoba. After Canadian animal rights group Animal Justice released ...
Before you get a ferret, there are some things you should know and steps you can take to prepare for your new pet.
Before you get a sable ferret, there are certain things you should know and some steps you can take to prepare for your new pet.
In a secure World Health Organisation lab, somewhere in the world, is a sick ferret. The animal sniffles and grumbles, as you or I might. Inside the creature’s cells, spiked virions multiply and ...
While H5N1 avian influenza virus taken from infected cow's milk makes mice and ferrets sick when dripped into their noses, airborne transmission of the virus between ferrets -- a common model for ...
A ferret in a cage (ferrets are often used as study proxies for humans) becomes infected with the virus by airborne transmission from a sick ferret in a nearby cage.
Seasonal flu, by contrast, makes ferrets sick but does not kill them, the CDC said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The strain of H5N1 bird flu isolated from a dairy worker in Texas was 100 percent fatal in ferrets used to model influenza illnesses in humans. However, the virus appeared inefficient at spreading ...
The bird flu virus strain that infected a Texas dairy farm worker in March was lethal to ferrets in experiments designed to mimic the disease in humans, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...