Coronavirus is responsible for another million lives, and minks are being massacred

At the same time, the fear that the virus could be transmitted back to humans led to their elimination. However, the epidemiologist of the World Health Organization (WHO) Maria Van Kerkhove, according to the server Science Alert states that the risk of transmitting the virus from animal to human remains “very limited”.

The Norwegians developed pneumonia

The outbreak in Utah involves nine fur farms, the spread of which was probably due to an infected carrier. The first signs of the virus spreading to mink were recorded in August this year.

Covid-19 affects minks similarly to humans, causing them respiratory problems. Coronavirus infection with SARS-CoV-2 is known to be particularly acute in the weasel family, which includes minks, weasels and badgers.

“When infected, minks catch their breath and flow from their eyes and noses. They usually die within the next day, they are not sick for long,” he said. NBC News veterinarian Dean Taylor of Utah.

“The lungs of the dead minks were wet, heavy, red and inflamed,” he told the professional title. Science veterinary pathologist Tom Baldwin of Utah State University. According to him, these symptoms correspond to pneumonia and coincide with the examinations that were performed in Europe.

The virus is poorly transmitted from animals to humans

Researchers are working hard to find out which animal species are at greatest risk of transmitting the virus from the animal back to humans. There are cases where this appears to be the case, although according to the WHO this risk is currently considered low and much lower than the risk of human-to-human transmission of the virus.

Unfortunately, it seems that the virus spreads easily from humans to animals, as shown by the current tragedy of artificially bred minks – another reason why the animal kingdom on the planet Earth should be feared.

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