Coronavirus In Animals In Denmark
BERLIN Denmark one of the largest fur producers in the world plans to kill every mink in the country to contain a coronavirus mutation that had begun spreading back to humans.
Coronavirus in animals in denmark. Mink in Denmark are not the only animals that could become reservoirs for the coronavirus to spread new mutations to people. The US Italy the Netherlands Spain and Sweden have now reported coronavirus cases linked to mink farms after a mutation spreading from the animals was found in Denmark. Fur bosses say the outbreak reported in.
The entire population of mink in Denmark was culled in November over fears that the animals could transmit a mutated form of the coronavirus to humans. Denmark plans to slaughter up to 17 million farmed mink because a coronavirus mutation discovered in the animals that may have spread to humans Danish. MORE than a quarter of a million Danes were forced into lockdown today amid reports a mutant strain of mink-related coronavirus had been found in humans.
The news came after a. At least 25 million mink in Denmark the worlds second-biggest producer of the animal fur will be culled because they are infected with coronavirus. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses.
In November 2020 Danish authorities announced a plan to cull all farmed mink in the country after more than 200 farms reported SARS-CoV-2 infections among their animals Live Science previously. SARS-CoV-2 the virus that causes COVID-19 could have spilled from animals to people multiple times according to a preliminary analysis of viral. At that time 11000 animals on the infected farm were culled.
Denmark first reported that it had discovered sick mink on its fur farms in June but at that point it appeared that human workers were passing the virus to the minks. Around 100000 mink are to be put down at various farms in Denmark due to. Minks are seen at a farm in Gjol northern Denmark on October 9 2020.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said. The country has registered 50530 confirmed COVID-19 infections and 729 deaths. Denmark culled 17 million minks in November in response to Covid-19 outbreaks at more than 200 mink farms.