In experiments conducted in a biosafety level 3 facility, the researchers studied ferrets that had antibodies to seasonal flu ...

The fatality rate for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans has historically been high, with more than half of people dying. Why, then, is the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak—which has ...

A University of Minnesota graduate student was sentenced to six months in prison Monday for raiding a ferret farm in 2006. Scott DeMuth, a teaching assistant in the sociology department, pleaded ...

In nearly three decades of ferret activism, Pat Wright has gone to jail, run for political office, lobbied legislators, collected thousands of signatures and battled decades of rejection and apathy.

Exploring burrows. In September, five black-footed ferrets fitted with the novel tracking devices were released in a prairie dog colony in the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, in ...

These Unique Black-Footed Ferrets Are on the Edge of Extinction. Trump’s Cuts May Well Do Them in. “So much conservation work is happening bare-bones right now.” ...

GREENFIELD — Nearly 90 frisky ferrets converged on the Hancock County Fairgrounds last weekend for the Ferret 500. The annual fundraiser is hosted by Five Points Ferret Refuge, a nonprofit ...

The ferrets, who "continue to reach expected developmental and behavioral milestones," were born using the same genetic material as the first clone, Elizabeth Ann, who was born on Dec. 10, 2020.

Ferrets were first reintroduced to Colorado in 2001 at Wolf Creek, north of Rangely. After dozens were released over several years, that site succumbed to a plague outbreak and collapsed by 2010.

The fatality rate for H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in humans historically has been high, with more than half of people dying. Why, then, is the current H5N1 bird flu outbreak — which has ...