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There are more than 1000 mink farms in Denmark
The Danish government decided to euthanize up to 17 million minks after detecting a new strain of the Corona virus that can be transmitted to humans on farms to raise this animal.
Danish Prime Minister Mte Frederiksen said the new strain of the virus “threatens the efficacy” of any new vaccine that is developed in the future to deal with the Covid-19 disease.
Denmark is the world’s largest producer of mink fur.
Police said the process of getting rid of these animals should be carried out as soon as possible.
Cases of infection with the coronavirus have been detected in mink farms in the north and south of Denmark and in other farms in Europe in recent months.
But the number of cases is increasing rapidly in Denmark and five cases of the new strain of the virus have been detected in mink farms in the country. Authorities said 12 people had been infected with the virus.
Frederiksen described the situation as “very dangerous”.
He said, citing a government report, that the new strain of the virus weakens the body’s ability to produce antibodies against the virus, rendering the vaccines currently being developed useless.
“We have a great responsibility to our citizens, but in light of the emergence of mutations that we have discovered in the virus, the responsibility is doubled towards the whole world,” Fredricksen told a news conference in the capital Copenhagen.
Danish Police Director Thorkild Forge said the mink animals to be slaughtered are found in more than 1,000 farms in the country.
In July, Spain euthanized more than 100,000 minks after discovering cases of the virus on a farm in the Aragon region, and the Netherlands executed tens of thousands after the virus spread on farms there.
Scientific studies are being carried out in an attempt to understand the causes of mink infection with the virus and its cause of transmission.
