Each week, BIV staff will share with you some of the interesting stories we have found from around the web.
Emma Crawford Hampel, online editor:
“Soft and virus-y: the mink with COVID-19” – Did a mink really give a human coronavirus at a fur farm in the Netherlands? – National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/05/coronavirus-from-mink-to-human-cvd/
Jeremy Hainsworth, reporter:
Stopping pandemics: As new diseases such as COVID-19 possibly teach us how easily humans can infect and affect each other individually and as a society, a look at past pandemics and scientists who fought them. It questions what people remember about past pandemics and what the current one might teach once the danger has passed. – National Geographic