Henrik Nordgaard Hansen and Ann-Mona Kulsoe Larsen kill their herd, which consists of 3,000 mother minks and their cubs, on their farm near Naestved, Denmark. There are 1,139 mink farms in Denmark, employing about 6,000 people, according to the industry. Danish farms together account for 40 percent of global mink fur production and are the world’s biggest exporter. Earlier this month, Denmark reported that 11 people were sickened by a mutated version of the coronavirus that had been observed among the mink. The coronavirus evolves constantly as it replicates but, to date, none of the identified mutations have changed anything about the coronavirus transmissibility or lethality.

Source: The Standard November 14, 2020 04:12 UTC