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Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus
- ericmay 6y ago> Denmark, the world's biggest producer of mink fur, said Wednesday it would cull all of the country's minks after a mutated version of the new coronavirus was detected at its mink farms and had spread to people. Questions: 1. Is this worrisome? 2. If Denmark is catching this, should we be concerned that the virus has mutated in other animals and has thus far gone undetected?
- jlouis 6y ago1. Yes. This is serious. Mutation is a big red reset button on the pandemic potentially. 2. No. Minks are kept in small cages with a very high density of biomass. This makes it a perfect incubator. Also ferrets have some similarities with humans in the upper respiratory system, making this more of a concern.
- ce4 6y agoApparently one of the upcoming vaccines in testing was already rendered ineffective by the mutation. Edit: source for the claim about the vaccine's ineffectiveness against the mutated strains in german TAZ from two weeks ago: https://taz.de/Coronavirus-bei-Wildtieren/!5720096/ https://taz.de/Coronavirus-bei-Wildtieren/!5720096/
- _Microft 6y agoNot only that, the conditions of keeping the animals close but not too close even encourages selection for mutations that allow the virus to spread more easily through air. If I remember correctly, ferrets were held under similiar conditions for "gain for function" experiments [0]. "Gain of function" means here how the virus can develop the ability (function) of spreading through the air when it e.g. initially required direct contact to be transmitted. An animal would be intentionally infected with the disease and a random mutation would allow the virus to jump to a separate cage to infect an animal there. Pretty horrible and dangerous, imo. Research on this was banned in the US for a few years, see also [0]. Edit: a small bonus comment I just thought about: here is a time lapse of development of resistance to antibiotics on a large petri dish [1]. Observe how they used increasing concentrations of antibiotics to allow stepwise improvement of resistance instead of confronting the bacterium with an unsurmountable effect all at once. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation#By_effect_on_function https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation#By_effect_on_function [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yybsSqcB7mE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yybsSqcB7mE
- napier 6y agoBanned in the US, but presumably outsourced to wherever else the research funding flowed to?
- ada1981 6y agoIt was banned but the ban was lifted a few years ago by Trump.
- bpodgursky 6y ago... at the urging of pre-pandemic Fauci Edit: It's literally true, you idiots. Stop downvoting: https://covid19data.com/2020/05/03/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-with-millions-of-u-s-dollars-for-risky-coronavirus-research/ https://covid19data.com/2020/05/03/dr-fauci-backed-controver... https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741 https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan...
- whyenot 6y agoBoth links you provided appear to be for the same article, just from two different sources. There is nothing in the article about Fauci "urging" anyone to lift the ban on gain of function research. He did defend the research being done in China and the ban was lifted by NIH in December 2017, though. Also, calling people who downvoted you "idiots" is not the road towards meaningful discussion.
- ada1981 6y agoYes was banned due to academic outcry, but then lifted by Trump. “Gain of Function” is often a dog whistle for bioweapons research.
- hvidgaard 6y agoWhy else would you actively develop bacteria and virus that spreads more?
- Griffinsauce 6y agoThere aren't millions upon millions of ferrets kept at this density though.
- contravariant 6y agoThey probably meant 'minks', not ferrets, in which case there are 15 to 17 million of them in Denmark.
- mschuster91 6y ago> Mutation is a big red reset button on the pandemic potentially. Only on the vaccination / immunity front - the biggest problem was that there initially were no tests or lab capacities for tests, plus a total collapse of PPE stockpiles and supply. That's ... at least decently solved.
- tyre 6y agoDepends on where you are. The US has significantly improved testing (I work for a COVID-19 testing company) but people don't socially isolate or wear their damn masks. We had issues in the election yesterday of poll workers not wearing masks. People just don't get it, and this behavior clearly isn't "fixed" as the winter surge is well under way.
- mcguire 6y agoA question: Why aren't we running randomized survey testing to determine the extent of infections?
- gamacodre 6y agoWho would pay for it? Or do the work, or collate it, or publish the results? Portions of the federal government are actively hostile to fact-based public health work. The rest of it seems to be either defunded or demotivated, as opportunity allows.
- m4rtink 6y agoSlovakia just tested their whole adult population with antigene tests: https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/03/slovakia-attempts-to-test-entire-adult-population-for-coronavirus https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/03/slovakia-attempts-to-tes... Yes, it's just a couple milion people & antigen tests are not 100% precize, but it demonstrates something like this can be done.
- saalweachter 6y agoWe are, sort of, when big cities test sewage.
- spockz 6y agoThe same story has been in the Dutch news. Apparently the virus has crossed three times between human and mink. His tone is satirical but the facts check out: https://youtu.be/LOT9BTMVRUI https://youtu.be/LOT9BTMVRUI
- Griffinsauce 6y agoFor context: this is basically the Dutch John Oliver, so not necessarily "the news" but arguably more reliable in terms of information.
- mcguire 6y ago"Coronavirus has been detected at 207 Danish mink farms, Frederiksen said." 1 or 2? Probably no big deal. 10 or 20? Worrying. 207? Yeah, the new strain is probably everywhere, or will be shortly.
- contravariant 6y agoNot all of those will be the new strain. The regular strain seems to be capable of infecting minks on its own, where it wreaks havoc on the tightly packed population. The problem is that this adds an entirely different evolutionary pressure that can result in a markedly different virus, which in the worst case can jump back to humans. This is that worst case.
- hedora 6y agoMost viruses breed in “reservoir” populations, then cross species with unpredictable effect. This is why we had a “bird flu” or “pig flu”, and so on. Coronaviruses cross between mammals all the time, mutate, and create new strains. This is why there is no cold vaccine (and why the flu vaccine changes each year, and is usually only 60-80% effective). So, to answer your questions: (1) It is not any more worrisome than the news we had back in March. (2) It certainly has already and will continue to mutate in other animals. Should we be concerned? I guess. I made peace with this inevitable outcome months ago. I feel sorry for the minks. I hope they don’t start testing other types of mammals and then decide to pursue wholesale eradication of local ecosystems and livestock. Doing that is clearly a non-starter (the food chain would collapse). However, it is necessary-but-not-sufficient to prevent new coronavirus strains from popping up.
- xvilka 6y ago> the food chain would collapse It's necessary for the world to realize breeding livestock like we do now is unsustainable. Either we go vegan, lab meat or hybrid agriculture. But the current industry is the dead end.
- hedora 6y agoI wasn’t talking about an agricultural collapse. I mean the natural food chain will collapse. If you kill all the mammals, then the birds of prey will go extinct, and stuff the mammals eat will overrun what’s left. If you don’t, then the mammals will keep spreading all sorts of pandemics. For example, if you live in Silicon Valley, start feeding the squirrels in the woods near you. Eventually, they’ll give you the Bubonic Plague. The plague is not a big deal these days, thanks to antibiotics, but this is an entire hemisphere away from where it hit, and hundreds of years later. It wouldn’t surprise me if you could already catch covid from a squirrel if you tried hard enough. Apparently people catch it from bats fairly regularly, and on average, they don’t get nearly as close to humans as an average rodent would.
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- jjtheblunt 6y agoThat's horrible, and how can anyone find that ok. Per "Guns, Germs, and Steel", it's not even strategic, because diversification of existing strains should naturally select the least deadly, as well as spread antibodies across species boundaries.
- Radle 6y agoThe animals are killed anyway for their fur. What do you think mink farms are?
- ssijak 6y agoThat does not make it less but more cruel.
- jjtheblunt 6y agoExactly; well said
- jjtheblunt 6y agoThere's nothing ambiguous about what they are.
- bzb6 6y agoHumans > Minks
- pinipedman 6y agoHumans raise mink in horrible conditions just to be slaughtered so we can make a fashion statement. Then, when the very conditions we created become an inconvenience to us, we slaughter them and fail to make even frivolous use of them, rendering their tortured lives even more pointless and sad. After all that you have to be pretty callous and self-important as a species to think "Humans > Minks"
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- im3w1l 6y agoSo uhm how likely is it that this new version is contained if they found 12 cases in people already?
- wffurr 6y agoIt's possible there is only mink-to-human transmission and not human-to-human. This was the case for MERS, which was contained in part by culling chickens.
- fartzzz 6y agoIt is believed that some of the cases (all?) didnt have any contact with minks and therefore was human-to-human
- im3w1l 6y agoSource?
- fartzzz 6y agoI cannot find anything online, but it was mentioned by Kåre mølbak in the press conference
- robocat 6y agoFrom aeyes (distant cousin) comment: “Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said half the 783 human COVID-19 cases in northern Denmark ‘are related’ to mink.” from https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Denmark-wants-to-cull-all-farmed-minks-over-COVID-15701200.php https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Denmark-wants-to-cul...
- IAmGraydon 6y agoThose cases are the original virus, not the new mink mutated one. It was just spread by the mink population.
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- Sharlin 6y agoI hope this hastens the end of factory farming animals for their fur, as a tiny silver lining to this whole coronavirus situation.
- osobo 6y agoI see what you did there
- kylebenzle 6y agoBecause everyone wearing plastic fabrics is somehow better?
- onion2k 6y agoEnvironmentally plastic is definitely worse, but the quantity of plastic used is tiny compared to the rest of the oil industry. The moral benefit comes from not farming animals to only use their fur. It's cruel and wasteful, and we have synthetic fur that's actually better than the real thing for warmth. The reason real fur is still used is because it's cheaper, which should tell you a lot about the conditions the animals are farmed in.
- eloff 6y agoI disagree, I would guess plastic has less overall cost to the environment. Think of the land and energy used raising food for the minks. Since neither of us are giving an empirical analysis, it's just one opinion vs another.
- jackdeansmith 6y agoDoesn't seem like there's a lot of research, but the one study I could find seems to agree that specifically the climate impact of natural fur is quite a bit higher than faux fur: https://www.cedelft.eu/en/publications/download/1538 https://www.cedelft.eu/en/publications/download/1538
- thelittleone 6y ago
- demadog 6y agoThat photo of the minks looking out of the cages at the camera is a bit of a tear-jerker.
- mikkelam 6y agoAs a dane I'm not really proud that these things were here to being with
- zepearl 6y agoDammit, and since years I was thinking that anything related to fur was a closed chapter, at least in Europe. This is horrible and absolutely superfluous, used to produce luxury goods :(
- mrweasel 6y agoWhile I don’t really care one way or the other about the mink farms, it should come as no surprise that the main marked for the mink furs is China. For a supposed communist country they sure do like superflous luxury goods and have little regards for how they are made.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoIts good to keep it in perspective. There are billions of people in China. If only a tenth of a percent enjoys luxury goods, that's millions of people.
- brnt 6y agoThe killer is that much of the furry collars on clothing items sold in Europe, which we often presume to be fake, are in fact from Chinese racoondogs.
- interfixus 6y agoAnd as another Dane, I am digusted and have beeen for many years. Would that vis-a-vis mink farmers as a group this virus had a sense of poetic justice.
- signamos 6y agoI hope that ends the industry. And make the state provide better/different jobs for the people affected.
- cheph 6y agoDenmark is not a socialist/communist/marxist country, it is not the Danish state's function to provide jobs for people.
- djxfade 6y agoYou don't have something simulator to Norways social services? In Norway they will help you find a new job, and offer re-education. You also gets up to 80% of your former salary provided by the government until you do.
- fartzzz 6y agoYes Denmark have similiar social services. The farms (and related companies that works in the industry) will get financial help and the State will help workers with re-education
- bkor 6y agoFrom what I noticed in the news is that various European countries have similar policies. Meaning, government doesn't reduce employment by (as government) creating jobs or hiring people. However, they do offer support in fining jobs or making it easier to learn another job. Lastly, unemployment rate is often an important topic and the way that's influenced seems nicer than e.g. UK/US methods. For UK/US it doesn't feel like the government cares about their citizens. To me (Dutch) the other person is speaking about Denmark without knowing a lot about it.
- roel_v 6y ago"You also gets up to 80% of your former salary provided by the government until you do." Also when you were self-employed, and/or if you quit your job? In Norway can you quit your job for no reason and get 80% of your salary while you look for another (or not)?
- graeme 6y agoThis is one of the serious dangers with the idea of letting the virus run wild to achieve herd immunity: you create a lot of animal reservoirs. Though minks do seek way riskier than average.
- abeppu 6y agoWhy are minks riskier than average? Is it because of biological similarity (but then, there are lots of other mammals), or because of the conditions they're kept in? Naively, I might have just expected that cows or pigs or sheep would be the highest risks in aggregate, just because of numbers.
- claudeganon 6y agoThe respiratory systems of Mustelidae are similar enough to humans that they easily can become a reservoir for human disease or vector for cross-species transmission. We’ve used ferrets in all kinds of respiratory disease research for this reason (particularly flu studies). https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/6/17-2114_article https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/6/17-2114_article You’re right about livestock more generally though. Avian and swine livestock also pose a huge risk for pandemic disease. But Mustelidae do as well.
- _Microft 6y agoI don't know why but it seems that in minks SARS-Cov-2 mutates a lot more frequently than it does in humans. This would mean a lot of new strains that we would not know how to detect or deal with.
- mercer 6y agoYup. I mean, put humans in fecal-infested close confinement in numbers of 10.000s and see what happens. Big petry dish.
- _Microft 6y agoFrom what I remember it sounded rather that the virus mutated faster in ferrets, not just because of their environment. I cannot find a source for it, so I might have misunderstood.
- koala_man 6y agoNorway's Fur Farming Prohibition Act is set to take effect in 2025. May this neighboring scare hasten the demise of this abusive and unnecessary industry.
- bergheim 6y agoIndeed. And I love how we use other words to make ourselves feel better. Noone ever did genocide; they merely culled. I will be shocked if humanity do not see this differently in a century.
- vixen99 6y agoI trust we won't need a century to see this digusting business for what it is. This is what we do with our advanced brains?
- rllearneratwork 6y agoyes, the proper headline should be: "Denmark will kill millions of minks over mutated coronavirus"
- jabl 6y agoThey would be killed either way, to produce fur. That's like the entire reason for their miserable and agonizing lives. The sad thing is not that they're being culled now due to COVID, but that we'll continue doing this generation after generation producing more suffering.
- autosharp 6y agoIs it that much worse than farming hogs? Most of that is done in cages too small to turn around or stand. Live transport and slaughter is also amazingly horrific.
- Griffinsauce 6y agoWhy do we have to compare it? Multiple things can be terrible and require changes.
- bigpumpkin 6y agoWhat does it mean that the virus responds weakly to antibodies? Were these antibodies produced before against the unmutated virus? Or is it that humans have a harder time forming effective antibodies against this new variant.
- rootsudo 6y agoIt means the virus naturally developed a resistance being incubated in minks and everyone is afraid that it could lead to another pandemic wave where the sunk cost of already stuffing a vaccine early, could be useless. Country loses, corporation loses, citizens lose if that's the case. If they just cull the minks, only the minks lose.
- specialp 6y agoI think perhaps keeping animals in packed conditions should be reevaluated for human threat. We are essentially keeping animals in conditions that are not much unlike 14th century Paris where the plague ran rampant
- zarkov99 6y agoPerhaps keeping humans in packed conditions should also be reevaluated. My whole family hasn't had as much as a cold since the lockdown began. Many others seem to be experiencing the same benefits.
- Etheryte 6y agoI didn't downvote you, but perhaps as feedback on why your opinion may be controversial, most humans aren't forced to live in packed conditions. Generally you're free to pack up and move somewhere else if it's too cramped for your taste. Living in cities is usually a choice as it offers convenience and numerous opportunities.
- zarkov99 6y agoThanks for the feedback. Did not realize I was being controversial, it was just a random personal insight. Fewer crowds, fewer diseases. Of course its obvious but one thing is to read it in a book and the other is to live it.
- sethhovestol 6y agoFrom the article this looks like it's not SARS-Cov-19, can someone confirm that? Does the weak immune response mean it's also novel?
- aeyes 6y agoSeems like it's SARS-Cov-19: > Mette Frederiksen said a report from a government agency that maps the coronavirus in Denmark has shown a mutation in the virus found in 12 people in the northern part of the country who got infected by minks. Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said half the 783 human COVID-19 cases in northern Denmark ”are related” to mink. Source: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Denmark-wants-to-cull-all-farmed-minks-over-COVID-15701200.php https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Denmark-wants-to-cul...
- bkor 6y agoThat has been noticed in Netherlands for many months (including mutation). According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_farming it was 25 May 2020. Denmark ignored the issue for a very long time for economical reasons. Netherlands was slow to respond, Denmark: notified by Dutch around that time, they ignored it. They're risking that a vaccine won't work. I recently learned that in various cases fake fur is made from minks. Because of that I'd appreciate is those mink farms were banned, though banning sometimes just increases the price.
- ashtonkem 6y agoMinor correction: the virus is SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes is COVID-19
- wojciii 6y agoI live in the North - the exact area where the animals are raised in - you know it as they smell really bad. The area with the mink factories is mostly thinly populated. I don't know what restrictions are going to be implemented in the coming days, but I'm sure most people will take Corona 2.0 ("Made in Denmark") seriously and keep their distance.
- cblconfederate 6y agoThis is very alarming. It may already be happening in the wild as well. Unless a successful cure is found, it doesn't seem vaccination will be the end
- FriendlyNormie 6y agoDie slow you gullible fuck.
- refactor_master 6y agoIt is happening in the wild. All the time. That’s how we ended up here in the first place. The best we can do is avoid getting close to wildlife, and leave nature alone.
- FriendlyNormie 6y agoSo they have COVID-21 in the lab ready to go, and this is the bullshit narrative they’re going to push as its origin story. Are you gullible FAGGOTS really going to fall for this shit AGAIN? You all deserve what’s coming. Dumbfucks.
- sdmw 6y agoLike if we didn't knew that minks usually pick up and mutate viruses. Here in the Netherlands we had some serious covid outbreaks on mink farms and all farms are due (or already are) to be terminated over the next few months.
- stinos 6y agoMoreover in the Netherlands this was already an issue in april.
- tuna-piano 6y agoDoes this mutated coronavirus from minks transfer human->human? Any guesses yet on whether the vaccines in development would respond to this virus as well? Does the rest of the world need to immediately cut travel to Europe? Would rather stop travel and wish we didn't than allow travel and wish we stopped it... We literally just had a real life trial for how we deal with new pandemics in January... have we learned our lesson?
- edgecrafter 6y agoThe mutated cornavirus shows reduced responsiveness to antibodies thus a threat to current vacines in pipeline. Yes, it transfer Human-> Human. Hence the drastic measures to contain and eliminate the variant.
- Razengan 6y agoThis is fucking dystopian and despicable. Reminds me of "2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993157 Just reading these headlines puts a damper on my ability to find joy in anything for a while. The words "cull millions" should not be happening to anything, in any sane world. How are people so fucking desensitized to the grim practices of factory farms? Makes me wish for an alien species to do the same to us some day.
- gm3dmo 6y agoGoretex for all.
- gm3dmo 6y agoPerhaps demand for mink collapsed and now mink farmers feel they need to be compensated before exiting the market altogether.
- dboreham 6y agoPlural: Mink?
- mensetmanusman 6y agoI wonder if we will have future discussions about different programming decisions to cull various general intelligent computer programs that have converged on dangerous thought patterns (e.g. destruction focused). These GI systems will have more advanced capabilities/intelligence than any known animal, and one could therefore argue they have higher moral standing. They will have evolved just like the animals, but on a vastly accelerated timescale due to parallelization.
- szopa 6y agoThis article may be unnecessarily alarmist: https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1324085761449304067?s=19 https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/13240857614493040...
- intotheabyss 6y agoIf it's alarmist, how come the Denmark government is taking such extreme measures?
- tinus_hn 6y agoBecause they were alarmed? Governments are not immune to disinformation themselves and can experience pressure from a population rallied by falsehoods.
- Eupolemos 6y agoDane here. This is the danish health authorities' recommendation. If anyone thinks our government kills off >1000 farms and declares serious lockdown of a good part of our nation (no moving in and out of these counties, no going to work etc.) in a spur of the moment overreaction because of some Facebook sillyness, it is frankly getting insulting.
- erk__ 6y agoI would wait until the Danish health authorities actually publicate their findings. This is not a statement made by pseudo-scientists. While I don't know his credentials I don't see why I should trust him more than Statens Serum Institut. So I guess the question is if Denmark is alarmist or if this person is the opposite.
- SiempreViernes 6y agoArguably so should the Danish government, because SSI has not said anything in particular about this decision. They did publish a statement last week regretting they didn't properly mail the mink farmers to ask them about how Covid was going, but said that this failure wasn't important for the monitoring or spread of the disease. If they then knew anything about mink order 66 coming, that's some poker face.
- aaron695 6y agoIf we weren't children we should be having this discussion around urban cats. Which can catch the disease and will be spreading it in urban areas. To understand how important this is we'd need competent western scientists, which is a system we simply don't have. But I think banning cats from nursing homes would be prudent. I'd even say shooting on sight zombie style since they might kill with close contact. But the scientific community can't even decide on whether homo sapiens should wear a mask after a 100 years of research.
- mrweasel 6y agoCats need to be banned for a number of reasons, most importantly they can make people crazy and they kill an insane number of birds. It does matter that birds may be killed by windmills, when it’s not even comparable to the number cats kill.
- ficklepickle 6y agoThe symptoms of my T. Gondii infection made me read that as "cats are great".
- RickJWagner 6y agoNext on Shark Tank: The Mink Mask!
- liversage 6y agoA bit of background: It was discovered that Danish mink got infected by SARS-CoV-2 in June. There were local outbreaks at farms and some of these spread to nearby farms. Authorities scrambled and these farms were isolated and the mink killed. However, the spread continued to more than 200 farms, sometimes across large distances, and I still don't think the vector is known. Some speculate that birds might be the carrier (not infected but just carrying the virus from farm to farm). As the number of infected farms increased more preventive measures in the form of killing mink on nearby farms were mandated. The farmers were not happy about this and there has been negotiations about how many mink to kill and how to compensate the farmers. Mink fur is a huge export and from a pure economical (and cynical) viewpoint this is a disaster. This summer it was discovered that the virus in the mink had mutated and that some people had been infected with the mutated virus which didn't cause alarm at that time. However, the new development is that a mutation has been identified in five mink and 12 people that has a decreased sensitivity to antibodies and this might result in a vaccine not being effective against this mutation. So now the discussions about how many mink to kill has stopped. They will all be killed. Sometimes you have to be decisive and the Danish prime minister was decisive today.
- thro1 6y agoI still do not get it. 12 people have a decreased sensitivity to which antibodies? - some specific antibodies or antibodies in general? Which vaccine (or all of them)? Provided sources are vague about this. ( the best so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24991194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24991194 )
- thro1 6y agoFollowing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008175 has a link with precise explanation: 'Preliminary studies suggest that this virus exhibits decreased susceptibility to neutralizing antibodies from several people with a history of infection.'
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- tuna-piano 6y agoWould we know if this mutated coronavirus is already spreading in the community (in Denmark+Europe+beyond)? Do we have that type of surveillance?
- benzguo 6y agothis is genocide.
- sabujp 6y agolargest consumers of mink fur : china, hong kong, japan, korea : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mink_industry_in_Denmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mink_industry_in_Denmark , although don't know where they actually end up being sold as the finished product
- ponker 6y agoIt would be great if these wiped out the people who operate these torture factories but then didn't spread beyond there.
- cannedslime 6y agoI am pretty sure that its already too late to contain this. Confirmed human infections.
- cannedslime 6y agoI don't know who or why this was downvoted but. I told you so: https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/mutationsvirus-fra-mink-fundet-i-214-personer/8356459 https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/samfund/mutationsvirus-fra-m... 214 infected with the new strain already. This is a win for pharma companies, who can now sell TWO PCR test runs for every citizen tested.
- sword_smith 6y agoIt's probably the responsible thing to do and Denmark is a 1st world country, so they can afford it. But would the same thing happen if this problem occured in a poorer country? Probably not. So isn't it inevitable that a similar mutation happens in mink in another, poorer country and that it then spreads from there?