COVID CORNER
Dec 03, 2020
4 minutes
COVID VS MINK
Mink are the latest victims of the coronavirus. Utah ranchers have lost at least 8,000 of the ferret-like animals, farmed for their silky, luxurious pelts. Utah’s state veterinarian Dean Taylor said the virus was first detected in the mink in August, shortly after some farmworkers fell ill with Covid-19. Initial research indicates transmission of the virus from humans to animals; so far there have been no cases suggesting the opposite.
This is the first outbreak among mink in the United States, though other cases have been detected in Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain. Denmark is the world’s biggest producer of mink
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