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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – It is rumored that minks can transmit corona (Covid-19) to humans. The crown on the animal’s body is even said to have mutated.
Therefore, the Danish government admits that it will destroy the civet family. Without palliative, the number is even up to 15 million minks.
“Very, very serious.” said Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, quoted from CNBC International, Monday (09/11/2020). According to him, there are devastating consequences for the existence of the animal and the corona virus.
Meanwhile, the world health organization (WHO) claims to be monitoring this closely. Especially to prevent another corona pandemic from continuing in humans.
“The rate of change in this virus (new corona) is something that we have been following from the beginning,” said the Head of WHO’s Diseases and Zoonoses Unit, Dr. Maria van Kerkhove.
“We have been seeing this for several months and what we understand is that the mink has been infected by human contact and circulates in mink. Then it can be transmitted to humans,” he said again at WHO headquarters in Geneva.
Still, he said his party would conduct further evaluations. As to whether there have been changes in transmission and severity, including implications for vaccines and therapeutic drugs.
The WHO also said it was working with regional offices in Europe, the Pacific and the Americas to oversee mink farming around the world. This, he said, is important so that countries can take the right steps.
In Europe, mink farming is found in several countries. These animals are often used for their fur.
Buz’s World I had time to write ermine used also to make false eyelashes. But the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) denied it.
The fury of the mink and the crown began last May. At that time, two people working on a mink farm in the Netherlands were infected with the crown.
The government and local health authorities say this is the first case of mammal-to-human transmission during the epidemic.
Citing Asiaone, Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten said in her report that minks carrying the virus were found on 4 of the 155 farms where they were raised for their fur in the mill country.
With this case, he emphasized that the possibility of transmission from animals to humans or vice versa cannot be ignored. In three of the four infected farms, the source of the infection was found to be, according to the report, a sick human, while a fourth is still under investigation.
The director of the Dutch Institute of Health (RIVM), Jaap van Dissel, said that while several cats and other animals have also been infected with Covid-19 by humans, the transmission of these mammals from humans is a unique and rare practice.
“This is the first time that we have found, at least we have shown the possibility, that in two cases the infection had passed from an animal to a human. Of course, the original source of infection in China was also probably an animal.” said.
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