Health
Nearly 10,000 minks dead from Covid-19 outbreak at Utah fur farms – The Guardian
State’s veterinarian says the coronavirus had mostly impacted older minks ‘wiping out 50% of the breeding colonies’
Almost 10,000 minks in Utah have reportedly died due to Covid-19, spurring quarantines at nine fur farms impacted by the outbreak.
The states veterinarian, Dean Taylor, reportedly said that coronavirus had mostly impacted older minks, wiping out 50% percent of the breeding colonies. Younger minks were largely unharmed, he said.
The first known Covid-19 cases among US minks were in Utah, with their diagnoses confirmed in mid-August, the federal Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. Authorities…
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