Mutated covid in mink?

chilliwilli · Nov 6, 2020

Read on the newspaper that in denmark a mutated form of the virus was found in minkfarms.

The article also mentioned several documented cases in us and nethetlands over the last months of humans got infected by mink in the farms.

Heard about that? The article only had one link as "source" about the ban of minkfarms

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/539.1

chilliwilli · Nov 6, 2020

That was the first report about the virus situation in month that caught my attention.
Would be bad on a longterm view if the virus finds a harbour in animals with the possibility to jump back to humans.

Hermanthegerman · Nov 6, 2020

I just read it also. I hope that´s not so tragic.

chilliwilli · Nov 6, 2020

Nice read from netherlands. Yes it can spread from mink to human. Several infected humans in minkfarm in the netherlands and when sequencing the virus genom its close related to the one found in the mink. Also a lot of workers got tested negative and a few weeks later a high % of them got tested positive. The other covid cases in the same postal code were not related to the one found on the farms.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.01.277152v1.full.pdf+html
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.01.277152v1.full.pdf+html

Switcher56 · Nov 6, 2020

Alarming yes! At least (to date) infecting pigs and poultry hasn't been successful.

armedoldhippy · Nov 6, 2020

great! now i don't have to buy the missus a mink coat for Christmas. "i did it for your safety, baby. honest!" :shucks:

chilliwilli · Nov 6, 2020

As long as u don't work on a mink farm u are ok.
So happy xmas for the misses :biglaugh:

St. Phatty · Nov 6, 2020

Kill the Mink Farmers - NOT the Mink.

The fur from infected mink will be 100% fur. And can be dis-infected easily.

God what a bunch of sadistic morons.

Kill the Morons who decided to kill the Mink.

GMT · Nov 6, 2020

chilliwilli said:
As long as u don't work on a mink farm u are ok.

Isn't that like saying "so long as you don't eat bats"?

chilliwilli · Nov 6, 2020

Yes would have probably spared us the virus.

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aridbud · Nov 6, 2020

Read it's in salmon, too. Be careful where you get it. I think ocean, not farm raised.

El Timbo · Nov 6, 2020

It's a vegan plot to take over the world

Sunshineinabag · Nov 6, 2020

Don't fuk with my choc milk from monument farms ok?

Paddi · Nov 6, 2020

ANALYSIS: How serious is Denmark's mink coronavirus mutation and outbreak?

Read more here:
https://www.thelocal.dk/20201105/how-serious-is-denmarks-mink-coronavirus-mutation-and-outbreak

P :smoke:

AgentPothead · Nov 6, 2020

Just think of it as the planet's immune system trying to remove a troublesome invader that won't live in balance with it's environment. I think you call them "human beings".

Sunshineinabag · Nov 6, 2020

dragongrower · Nov 7, 2020

mink farming has not been banned as such.
The farmers "just" need to cull all their animals.

But also their breeding stock, which means that the mink industry in Denmark has been effectively shut down.

Teddybrae · Nov 7, 2020

Sounds like you're having a bad day, Saint P. "Kill. Kill. Kill."

St. Phatty said:
Kill the Mink Farmers - NOT the Mink.

The fur from infected mink will be 100% fur. And can be dis-infected easily.

God what a bunch of sadistic morons.

Kill the Morons who decided to kill the Mink.

shithawk420 · Nov 7, 2020

My family used to raise mink in the 70s.even got trophy's for it.from what I understand they are nasty dirty little viscous bastards.glad I never had to raise and kill them.

Switcher56 · Nov 7, 2020

shithawk420 said:
My family used to raise mink in the 70s.even got trophy's for it.from what I understand they are nasty dirty little viscous bastards.glad I never had to raise and kill them.

My grand father's farm, had a mink farm nearby (not his). Stunk to high heaven during the summer!

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