You know, I wouldn't have put minks as top on my list of COVID threats.Īlina - Yeah, this is not too surprising, although it's really devastating to hear this news. And now that virus that has been circulating among the minks has passed back into the human population in Denmark. More than 200 have been found to have COVID-19 outbreaks. Alina Chan is a scientist from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who wasn’t involved with the Danish research, but has been looking into COVID in minks, and explained the situation to Phil Sansom…Īlina - In Denmark they have more than 1100 mink farms. To address the problem scientists are now trying to understand how the virus behaves in minks, and whether the unique version that comes from minks presents a unique problem for treatments. Reportedly this version has been transmitted human-to-human as well, although it’s not clear whether this is still going on. And crucially, the mink have given 12 of those people a unique version of the virus. Since July, over 200 people in Denmark have been infected with copies of the coronavirus that have been spreading through mink farms.
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