Mutated coronavirus: Denmark is fighting the zombie mink

Danish minks transmit mutated coronaviruses

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Berlin.
What sounds like a horror movie is becoming in
Denmark
Reality. The government had millions there
Nerze
Have them killed because a mutated coronavirus was detected in the animals – which had also been transmitted to humans in some cases. But now some of them have unexpectedly reappeared.

In a makeshift mass grave for the fur animals that was set up on a military site, the carcasses were recovered due to putrefactive gases
pressed to the surface of the earth
, as pictures from the public television channel DR show. The Guardian also reports on the cases.

“While the bodies decompose, gases are formed,” said the spokesman for the Danish police, Thomas Kristensen. “That ensures that the whole thing expands a little. In this way, in the worst case scenario, the mink will be pressed out of the earth. “

Mutated coronavirus: killed minks emerge from their graves

The Danish government had the culling of up to in early November
17 million minks
arranged in the country after a mutated and human-transmissible form of on some breeding farms in North Jutland
Sars-CoV-2
had been discovered. There was therefore a risk that the
Mutation „Cluster 5“
could render future vaccinations ineffective. The government now assumes that “Cluster 5” could be “eradicated” again.

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Corona risk: The killing of millions of minks has started

For the mass culling of all mink in the country – including those from farms without a corona case or outside the risk areas – the information was missing at the time of the announcement
legal basis
. The Danish government admitted this belatedly, which ultimately led to Food Minister Mogens Jensen announcing his resignation.

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West Jutland: sandy soil to blame for the macabre phenomenon

Now mass graves are also becoming a problem in West Jutland. Another layer of earth now has to be applied over thousands of mink at a depth of around one meter.

“Unfortunately, one meter of earth is not always the same as one meter of earth,” said police spokesman Kristensen. The sandy soil in West Jutland is simply too light.

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Minks infect humans with mutated coronaviruses

From the Danish
Ministry of the Environment
it is said that the phenomenon is due to the process of decay and is only temporary. Surveillance was set up around the clock in the area until a fence will soon keep people and animals away from the area. Transmission of the corona virus through the dead animals is unlikely. (bef / afp)

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