Coronavirus In Animals In Denmark
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.
Coronavirus in animals in denmark. Denmark killed all its farmed mink last year millions of animals after a variant form of the novel coronavirus was detected circulating between mink and humans. 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. Mink were collected for.
What we know about Denmarks mink COVID-19 mutated strain Advertisement. Denmark culled 17 million minks in November in response to Covid-19 outbreaks at more than 200 mink farms. More recently millions of mink have been killed at fur farms in Denmark Spain and the Netherlands.
Officials in Denmark announced Wednesday that they would be euthanizing every last mink in the countrys fur farms some 17 million animals. Mink in Denmark are not the only animals that could become reservoirs for the coronavirus to spread new mutations to people. The country has registered 50530 confirmed COVID-19 infections and 729 deaths.
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 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. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said.
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. At that time 11000 animals on the infected farm were culled. 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.
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. The news came after a. Minks culled in Denmark after coronavirus fears environmental pollution Coronavirus.