#Mink #Coronavirus #minkcovid #minkgate
Following the alarming news about mutated coronaviruses transmitted from mink to humans in Denmark, the World Health Organization (#WHO) announced that infected minks have been reported from six countries.
Following the alarming news about mutated coronaviruses transmitted from mink to humans in Denmark, the World Health Organization (#WHO) announced that infected minks have been reported from six countries.
Cases of Sars-CoV-2 in mink have been detected in #Denmark, the #Netherlands, #Italy, #Spain, #Sweden and the #USA, the WHO said on Saturday night.
Only the mutation of the virus called “Cluster 5” in Denmark is worrying, it said: possible effects on diagnostics, therapies and the effectiveness of vaccines are largely unexplored and “not yet well understood”, warned the WHO.
Scientists fear that this mutation could affect the effectiveness of future vaccines. Denmark has so far reported not only a few affected animals but also twelve infected people with the “Cluster 5” mutation.
The government has therefore ordered the emergency slaughter of all 15 to 17 million minks in the country; Parts of Jutland were sealed off from the outside world.
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