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Denmark will slaughter all the minks raised in that country, which will be between 15 million and 17 million, after a mutation of the new coronavirus has been verified that has infected 12 people, the Danish prime minister announced on Wednesday, November 4. Mette Frederiksen.
The Danish executive leader argued that this evidence threatens the effectiveness of a future vaccine against the covid-19 disease, which is caused by a new coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2). “Mutation of the virus through the mink can create the risk that the future vaccine will not work as it should (…). It is necessary to sacrifice all the minks, ”said Mette Frederiksen, at a press conference.
According to the Danish authorities, the population of these small mammals in that country is between 15 million and 17 million.
Denmark follows the example of the Netherlands, which, in August, decreed an end to the practice of mink farming for the fur industry in that country, after registering several outbreaks of infection by the new coronavirus in farms dedicated to the breeding of these small mammals .
In June, and following the alleged transmission of the new coronavirus to people, the Dutch authorities also ordered the slaughter of several thousand minks. In May, the Dutch authorities had already decided to prohibit the transport of mink fur throughout the country, following the disclosure of the case of two workers from a farm located in the southern part of the Netherlands who would have contracted the new coronavirus through these small animals. .
At that time, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated, and under suspicions, that these possible contaminations could be the “first known cases of transmission” of the new coronavirus from animals to humans.
Mink or marten is the common name of several species of mustelid mammals, which resemble North American weasels.
