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What you need to know about minks and the coronavirus – Yahoo Singapore News

Farmed for their soft fur, minks are the only animal proven to both contract the new coronavirus and reinfect humans, thereby compromising efforts to stop…

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Farmed for their soft fur, minks are the only animal proven to both contract the new coronavirus and reinfect humans, thereby compromising efforts to stop the spread of the virus.
While the small creatures haven’t played a major role in the spread of the virus so far, alarm bells were recently sounded in Denmark.
When did minks start getting infected?
The first case of a mink being infected with the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and a mink farm worker subsequently being infected, was registered in…

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