This New York Times article summarizes the complexity of the human-wildlife disease interface. Mink farms in the US, as in the Netherlands and Denmark, have become reservoirs for Covid. And in these infected mink populations, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated then spilled back to humans. What's not clear to epidemiologists is how some humans contracted the mink strain and what other animal species (besides mink and white-tailed deer) now harbor SARS-CoV-2.

Hello to all of you who subscribe to my wildlife/science/author blog. I've been away rebuilding my website and companion blog. That's finally done (whew!), so I plan to pick up where I left off in March. Please look around my spiffy new website and revisit my blog posts from the previous 6 months. Comments are welcome on what you see through my website's Contact page.