An outbreak of coronavirus in Utah farms has killed 10,000 mink


At least 10,000 mink have died from the coronavirus in Utah as the epidemic haunts sensitive farms, the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food said Friday.

Although the virus has spread rapidly in the mink population, U.S. “Currently, there is no evidence that animals, including mink or other stilettos, play a significant role in transmitting the virus to humans,” the Department of Agriculture said.

Most of the deaths have occurred in elderly mints, valued for their luxury pills.

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State officials say they are trying to reduce the spread.

The affected mink farms have been quarantined to prevent the spread of SARS-CV-2 and the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food has implemented strict biosecurity measures and is working diligently with other organizations to deal with the outbreak, a state agriculture spokesman said. A spokesman for the state agriculture department told Fox News.

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In Wisconsin, several hundred mints were also infected there, the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison reported Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that two farms in Utah were affected when the coronavirus was first found in Minks in the U.S.

Farmers already knew that mink was susceptible to the coronavirus, as an epidemic had already broken out on farms in the Netherlands, Spain and Denmark.

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USDA According to the U.S. last year. About 2.7 million mink pellets were produced in. Wisconsin makes more pills than any other state, followed by Utah.

The value of the industry as a whole was 59.2 million last year, down 30% from 3 34.33 million in 2018.

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The Associated Press contributes to this report.