Introduction: Many countries have reported severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in mink, and transmission back to humans has raised the concern of novel variants emerging in these animals. ...

Until 2020, the rabies epizootic situation in Poland was favourable. This was interrupted, however, by a rabies outbreak in Mazowieckie voivodeship, which caused a drastic increase in rabies cases among animals, mainly red ...

In late 2022 and early 2023, SARS-CoV-2 infectionswere detected on three mink farms in Poland situated within a few km from each other. Whole-genome sequencing of the viruses on two of the farms showed that they were related ...

Astroviruses (AstVs) are small RNA viruses characterized by a high mutation rate, the ability to recombine, and interspecies transmission, which allows them to infect a multitude of hosts including humans, companion animals, ...

Since the emergence of serotype BTV-3, another bluetongue virus, in fall 2023, this variant has been causing great losses in livestock farming in Europe. The virus spreads faster than the epidemic BTV-8, which appeared on ...