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Scientists eye minks link in Spain, Dutch virus outbreaks – The New Daily
Scientists are studying the possibility infected minks transmitted COVID-19 back to farm workers in Spain and the Netherlands.
Coronavirus outbreaks at mink farms in Spain and the Netherlands have scientists digging into how the animals got infected and if they can spread it to people.
In the meantime, authorities have killed more than a million of the semi-aquatic mammals at breeding farms in both countries as a precaution.
The virus that first infected people in China late last year came from an animal source, probably bats, and later spread from person to person, as other coronaviruses had before.
Some animals, in…
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