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Pigeon Post: Ian Neville writes from the UK

July 7, 2021July 9, 2021adminLeave a Comment

Our dismal winter of freezing weather and Covid is finally over! Spring has arrived and a rapid Covid vaccination rollout has begun to break the link between new infections, hospitalisations and deaths … the weather is about the same to be honest! By mid-May just over 70 per cent of the UK adult population had […]

Could marine mammals catch COVID-19?

January 15, 2021adminLeave a Comment

It is widely accepted that COVID-19 virus spread from wildlife to humans, and studies are now being done on the risks to land-based animals through cross-infection from humans, (The Veterinarian, October 2020). The results of a study published recently in Science of the Total Environment have found marine mammals may also be vulnerable to reverse […]