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Originally Posted by dirk digler
Don't know if anyone heard about this Denmark-Mink covid transmissions with everything else going on but it is fascinating and concerning at the same time.
In Denmark they have had human - mink - human transmission and covid has mutated quite a bit before it was transmitted back to human. Currently there is 12-17 people in Denmark with this mutated mink covid that they know of. Denmark was planning to kill all of them by 2024 but now they are going to do it now.
The concern is the mutated virus has a mutation that they found through testing that causes resistance to antibodies and maybe to vaccines.
Doesn't appear so far that this mutated virus is any more or less lethal or symptoms change which is good news.
I have to say though it worries me how easy this virus can spread to animals and then back to us.
There is several other countries including the US that has mink farms.
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Saw it this morning on the news. Apparently Spain has put down a substantial number of minks as well.