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About a dozen farms are under quarantine in the United States to investigate mink corona cases.
Quarantined farms: 15,000 minks died from the coronavirus in the United States. (File image)
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Slaughtered minks are disposed of in a ditch in Denmark. Danish health authorities are using the Danish armed forces to dispose of mink on military land, as the Danish Health and Environment Authority has announced that the country’s incineration and extraction plants are struggling to keep up.
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In Holstebro, mink farmers demonstrate against the slaughter of animals.
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More than 15,000 minks have died from the coronavirus since August, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. About a dozen farms are under quarantine while the cases are investigated.
“This will help us learn more about the transmission dynamics between mink and other animals and humans,” explains the US health authority Currently there is no evidence that animals play a crucial role in the transmission of the virus to humans.
Confusion in Denmark
There is growing confusion in Denmark about the government-initiated mass killing of all minks in the country. There is still no legal basis for killing healthy fur animals outside certain risk areas, as admitted by Food Minister Mogens Jensen.
“We made a mistake. There is no legal authority to ask mink farmers outside the 7.8 kilometer zones to slaughter their minks,” Jensen told TV2 on Tuesday. He did not know when the announcement was made, but it did not change. the fact that mink farming in Denmark in the time of the Crown posed a risk: Farmers must continue to kill animals for public health reasons.
Announcing the measure last Wednesday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said that all minks in Denmark must be killed to ensure a mutation of the coronavirus that has occurred in the mink is contained. In a communication from the Ministry of Environment and Food it said: “Based on a new risk assessment by the health authorities, the government has decided to euthanize all Danish mink populations.”
