Coronavirus In Animals In Denmark
COPENHAGEN Reuters - Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to.
Coronavirus in animals in denmark. 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. 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. 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.
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. What we know about Denmarks mink COVID-19 mutated strain Advertisement. 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.
The country has registered 50530 confirmed COVID-19 infections and 729 deaths. Officials in Denmark announced Wednesday that they would be euthanizing every last mink in the countrys fur farms some 17 million animals. 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.
At that time 11000 animals on the infected farm were culled. 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 news came after a.
Minks are seen at a farm in Gjol northern Denmark on October 9 2020. More recently millions of mink have been killed at fur farms in Denmark Spain and the Netherlands. 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.
Minks culled in Denmark after coronavirus fears environmental pollution Coronavirus. 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. Some coronaviruses cause cold-like illnesses in people while others cause illness in certain types of animals such as cattle camels and bats.