WHO seeks to prevent Covid-19 mink farm ‘spillover events’
Denmark says it plans to cull its entire mink population and has announced strict new lockdown measures in the north of the country
06 November 2020 - 15:59
Geneva/London — The World Health Organisation (WHO) is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further “spillover events” after Denmark ordered a national mink cull due to an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals.
Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for Covid-19, told a briefing in Geneva on Friday that transmission of the virus between animals and humans was “a concern”, but added: “Mutations [in viruses] are normal. These type of changes in the virus are something we have been tracking since the beginning.”..
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