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.
The culling of at least 2.5 million minks in northern denmark has started, authorities said monday after the coronavirus has been reported in at least 63 farms. Denmark's mink cull has in fact been going on for several weeks, with 2.85 million already put down. The work will begin in may 2021, when the risk of coronavirus contamination from the dead animals has been eliminated.
Now The Country Plans To Dig Up The Dead Animals After They Started To Rise Out Of Their.
Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, the prime minister said on wednesday. About 5 percent of all. Denmark culled more than 15 million minks last month in a bid to prevent the.
Denmark’s Minister For Food, Mogens Jensen, Said 207 Farms Were Now Infected, Up From 41 Last Month, And The Disease Has Spread To All Of The Western Peninsula Of Jutland.
The us, italy, the netherlands, spain and. Denmark is set to dig up millions of mink that were culled because of a mutated form of coronavirus. Human impact on wildlife and animal habitats may be causing such spillover events to become much more likely.
The Largest Incident To Date Was The Culling Of 14 To 17 Million Mink.
Health minister magnus heunicke said genomic analysis suggested nearly 400 human coronavirus cases in northern denmark were related to mink farms, about half of all cases. Dogs, cats, tigers, hamsters, monkeys, ferrets and genetically engineered mice. More than 200 cases of coronavirus appear to be linked to sick mink on fur farms in denmark, according to new data released by the country’s public health agency.
By Tuesday, Coronavirus Had Been Reported On 237 Farms In Jutland With Further Cases Suspected.
Mink are not the only animals that can be infected with the coronavirus. Some coronaviruses, such as canine and feline coronaviruses, infect only animals and do not infect people. Nationwide, at least 216 out of the 1,139 fur farms.
