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My godâcan we #endminkfarming already?!
đâIncredibly concerningâ: Bird flu outbreak at Spanish mink farm triggers pandemic fears.
âĄď¸Spread among captive mink could give the #H5N1 strain opportunities to evolve and adapt to mammals.
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đâIncredibly concerningâ: Bird flu outbreak at Spanish mink farm triggers pandemic fears.
âĄď¸Spread among captive mink could give the #H5N1 strain opportunities to evolve and adapt to mammals.
science.org/content/articlâŚ
2) When mink at a big farm in Galicia, a region in northwestern Spain, started to die in October 2022, veterinarians initially thought the culprit might be SARS-CoV-2, which has struck mink farms in several other countries. But lab tests soon revealed something scarier:
3) a deadly avian influenza virus named H5N1. Authorities immediately placed workers on the farm under quarantine restrictions. The more than 50,000 mink at the facility were killed and their carcasses destroyed.
