How Mink, Like Humans, Were Slammed by the Coronavirus
How Mink, Like Humans, Were Slammed by the Coronavirus Rampaging infections at farms caused scandal, scientific head-scratching and a search for a vaccine — for mink. Mink on a farm in Herning, Denmark, last month.Credit...Ole Jensen/Getty Images Published Dec. 23, 2020Updated Jan. 22, 2021 Denmark’s mink industry is gone, a victim of the coronavirus. The nation killed all its 17 million mink because of fears of a mutation in the virus that had spread from mink to people. Separately, in Utah, farmed mink infected with the virus seem to have passed it on somehow to at least one wild mink, ...
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