Denmark to slaughter 17 million mink for coronavirus – News

“The mutated mink virus may pose a risk to the effectiveness of a future vaccine,” the president said to announce that they will kill all specimens in the country.

Outbreaks on mink farms have persisted in the Nordic country, the world’s largest producer of mink fur, despite repeated efforts by authorities to eliminate herds infected since June.

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“All mink must be sacrificed,” he added, representing around 17 million animals, “both sick and those without any pathology,” authorities said.

This mutation does not worsen the complications caused by the coronavirus in humans, but it acts on antibodies, reducing their effectiveness, which adds a problem for vaccine development coronavirus, Danish authorities explained, according to the news agency AFP.

“Continuing to breed these mink would pose a very high risk to public health, both in Denmark and abroad,” said Kåre Mølbak, head of the Danish Infectious Disease Control Authority (ISS).

The twelve cases of human transmission of the mutated virus have been detected in northern Jutland (west), where the majority of breeding sites are concentrated.

Everything seems to indicate that Covid-19, known as Group 5, is more deadly and new monitoring measures and restrictions will be adopted.