Mink on fur farms incubate diseases such as COVID-19 and avian influenza, creating the perfect conditions for new variants to jump to humans—with potentially devastating results. Mink farms risk ...

The Van Wert County sheriff said a local highway had to be cleared of dead mink and warned residents not to try to capture the animals on their own. By Amanda Holpuch Officials in northwest Ohio have ...

Thousands of mink are on the loose in Pennsylvania after being freed from a farm, cops say. Facebook screengrab from Erin Bourinski Up to 8,000 mink are on the loose in Pennsylvania, and residents are ...

Van Wert, Ohio — Vandalism freed thousands of mink at a rural northwest Ohio farm, leaving an estimated 10,000 of the small carnivorous mammals unaccounted for Tuesday evening, the local sheriff said.