Speaking of viruses, one of the oldest viruses known to man kind has seen a significant decline this year - rabies.
In recent years, scientists have realized half or more of the coho salmon, also known as silver salmon, returning to streams in Washington state were dying before spawning. The salmon, which reach 2ft in length, are born in freshwater streams before making an epic journey out to sea where they live most of their adult lives. A small number then return to their original streams to lay eggs before dying.
Fears for a million livelihoods in Kenya and Tanzania as Mara River fish die out Read more The cause of the die-off has remained a mystery but a new study, published in Science, has seemingly found a culprit. When it rains, stormwater carries fragments of old car tires into nearby creeks and streams. The tires contain certain chemicals that prevent them breaking down but also prove deadly to the coho salmon.
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Turkeys are a very interesting bird as it turns out. Which may be why many people are leaving it off their Thanksgiving table this year. Learn all about them right now!
The cull was ordered after a mutated version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was found to have spread among the country's mink herd — one of the world's largest — and then to humans. The AP reported at least 11 people were sickened by a mutated version of the virus.
Multiple mutations of the virus have been found in minks, but a variant known as C5 was the most concerning to scientists, due to its structure. Research from a Danish public health body, the Statens Serum Institut, had suggested that C5 might hinder the effectiveness of a vaccine against COVID-19.
Natural furs are warm, and don't use synthetic plastics. Probably though the cull was necessary to protect human health and the future viability of the farms. Mink are a renewable resource that can rebred, so while the feed and energy that went into raising them was wasted, the resource of the fur can be reproduced going forward.