The rulers of Copenhagen blasted fear of a new strain of COVID emerging in its farmed mink population and called for the killing of 17 million animals at 1,000 farms over concerns about animal-to-human transmission.
Danish “experts” warned that the mutation appearing in mink at these farms could potentially interfere with future vaccines. They said minks are known to spread the virus in their close quarters and become very sick, very quickly.
The BBC reported 200 people have been infected in Demark from mink. The variant in the disease in 12 cases is reportedly less sensitive to protective antibodies.
Scientists said there is nothing concrete about the new strain or its impact on humans.
“Every time the virus spreads between animals it changes, and if it changes too much from the one that is circulating within humans at the moment, that might mean that any vaccine or treatment that will be produced soon might not work as well as it should do,” Dr. Marisa Peyre, an epidemiologist from the French research institute Cirad, told the BBC.
TRENDPOST: Back in the 1980s and early ‘90s, as the economy slowed, anti-fur protests broke out across the United States. However, with the dot.com boom and the “shop until you drop” mentality becoming the American Way, fur coat sales rebounded.
We note this, since, despite the major media coverage, there was no mention of anti-fur movements relative to the slaughter of several million animals. Second, while there are reports of 200 people infected from minks in Denmark, a nation of 5.8 million people, there were no reports of deaths from the animals.
