Barry-Eaton County to host two community vaccine clinics next week
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BARRY/EATON, Mich. â The Barry-Eaton District Health Department plans to host two community COVID-19 vaccine clinics next week, according to BEDHD.
Health officials tell us the clinics will be held on the following dates:
Wednesday, June 2 at 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.:
Freeport Community Center â 209 State St, Freeport, MI 49325
Residents 18 and up are eligible.
Thursday, June 3 at 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.:
Bellevue High School â 576 Love Rd, Bellevue, MI 49021
Residents 12 and up are eligible.
Weâre told the Freeport Community Center clinic will offer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and the Bellevue High School clinic will administer the Pfizer vaccine.
The details of the case are sparse: The taxidermist and his wife live in Eaton County; they may own a small farm, and a detailed questionnaire revealed the taxidermist handled deer and backyard chickens but was exposed to no other animals, according to internal health department emails obtained through the state’s Freedom of Information Act.
Because of the potential involvement of an infected mink, the CDC took a “significant interest” in the case, emails show.
At the end of November, the CDC and Michigan Department of Health and Human Services sequenced genetic samples from both infected mink and mink farm employees. They found that two farm employees who tested positive for COVID-19 had two virus mutations also found in mink on the farm.
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A Michigan taxidermist who got infected with COVID-19 is at the center of a medical mystery that borders on the bizarre: Did he get infected by a mink the animal susceptible to the virus and farmed for its fur or a human?
Medical experts have, so far, been unable to answer that question, though records obtained in a joint Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state and county health investigation show a potential link to a nearby mink farm.
Derek Kravitz and Bianca Fortis, Brown Institute for Media Innovation; Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press
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A Michigan taxidermist who got infected with COVID-19 is at the center of a medical mystery that borders on the bizarre: Did he get infected by a mink the animal susceptible to the virus and farmed for its fur or a human?
Medical experts have, so far, been unable to answer that question, though records obtained in a joint Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state and county health investigation show a potential link to a nearby mink farm.
In early February, a taxidermist living in Eaton County, became infected with COVID-19. A sample from his positive test result was sent to the state lab to be genetically sequenced and came back as connected to a mutation of the virus found in infected mink, whose fur is used for coats and clothing.