Coronavirus In Animals In Denmark
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.
Coronavirus in animals in denmark. Officials in Denmark announced Wednesday that they would be euthanizing every last mink in the countrys fur farms some 17 million animals. The worrying news came after Denmarks government started culling 15 million animals at more than 1100 lucrative mink farms in the north-west of the country. Denmark will cull all its mink - as many as 17 million - after a mutated form of coronavirus that can spread to humans was found on mink farms.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said. The news came after a. 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.
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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. Mink were collected for. More recently millions of mink have been killed at fur farms in Denmark Spain and the Netherlands.
Minks are seen at a farm in Gjol northern Denmark on October 9 2020. 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. The country has registered 50530 confirmed COVID-19 infections and 729 deaths.
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. Some coronaviruses cause cold-like illnesses in people while others cause illness in certain types of animals such as cattle camels and bats. Mink in Denmark are not the only animals that could become reservoirs for the coronavirus to spread new mutations to people.