Thousands of Mink Die in Utah and Wisconsin Fur Farms
Please note 10,000 Mink are Dead From Covid-19 Outbreaks.
Thousands of mink have died at fur farms in Utah and Wisconsin after a series of coronavirus outbreaks.
In Utah, ranchers have lost at least 8,000 mink to Covid-19 among the animals known for their silky, luxurious pelts.
The virus first appeared in the creatures in August, shortly after farmworkers fell ill in July, according to Dr. Dean Taylor, State Veterinarian of Utah. Initial research shows the virus was transmitted from humans to animals, and so far has not seen any cases of the opposite.
“Everything we’ve looked at here in Utah suggests its gone from the humans to the animals,” Taylor told CNN. “It feels like a unidirectional path,” he said, adding that testing is still underway.
Unidirectional Path?
Why?
If Covid spread from bats to humans and humans to mink, cats, and dogs, why should anyone believe human-mink transmission is unidirectional?
Mish
California doctor Brian Tyson treated some 1,700 Covid patients with HCQ and zinc, with no fatalities. Only one needed hospitalization.
How about the sharks? The devil is always in the details!
A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Kill Half A Million Sharks, Conservationists Warn
October 10, 20207:39 AM ET
A conservation group is warning that the development of an effective coronavirus vaccine on a global scale could ravage shark populations worldwide, as researchers race to produce a vaccine using an oil derived from sharks.
Squalene, a compound that is harvested from the livers of sharks, is a common moisturizing ingredient in cosmetics. It’s also used in malaria and flu vaccines as an agent that boosts the immune system’s response.
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What a fckn disgrace, breeding and killing those poor animals so fckn c*nts can show off with expensive mink coats….. Please do accept my sincere apologies for the occasional vulgar phrasing when I am pissed off …
I always hate to hear about people losing livestock……it represents a big investment to people who are probably going to have a really hard time recovering from what amounts to an unmitigated disaster……on a personal level….
I understand mink farming is a multi-generational family farming business…and that it involves a lot of animal science and careful nutrition…disease is one of the big worries for the farmers..they vaccinate against some diseases, and try to use good infection control techniques to prevent humans from infecting their animals. It’s always a risk….and COVID is a huge wild card they couldn’t have seen coming.
For them, this has to be a nightmare, regardless of how one might feel about the ethics of fur farming.
I think you’re barking up the wrong tree on this one. Have you seen a mink coated chic in Europe lately? I bet 90+% of this farm goes for export to that emerging superpower where showing off is the ticket, like the douche bag European aristocracy a century ago.
Should be some good sales on mink fur coats this winter!
I thought PITA, et al, put an end to mink farms. Seems to be one of those obscure niches of the markets perfect for pulling off another a covid scam.
In the Netherlands mink farms were so heavily impacted that they have decided to compensate everyone to close down the industry, which was a policy target before the Corona virus hit. It is not that surprising, since the animal of choice for serial passaging (to speed up guided evolution of viruses for research purposes) is the ferret. There are quite a few people who have written on the possibilities of achieving “natural” looking virus genomes by using serial passaging, in cell cultures or using animals, particularly ferrets.
There can be few convincing reasons to assume that it can be spread to mink, ferrets, cats, tigers, and dogs, but not vice versa.
People have realized months ago that the virus has spread to the cat population.
» Cats are notorious for contravening social distancing rules and rarely tolerate masks. «
That’s why all the talk about containing and controlling a virus that’s already endemic in the human and cat population is absolute madness. That train left so long ago. Everyone keeps forgetting that flattening the curve was a mitigation, not a containment exercise. The area under the curve will be pretty much the same whatever policy measures are instituted.
I’ve heard that virus often mutate to less lethal forms. Although the opposite may also happen. So the area under the curve can change.
Actually Coronoviridae are quite stable. In the movies the virus mutates.
Influenzaviridae are unstable and they keep coming in altered forms.
A Corona virus will adapt certain enzymes and nucleotide codings to preferences of the host animal, but functional differences not so quickly. The lack of adaptation in the C19 virus genome is actually evidence that it was already adapted to human hosts; if the case of a recent zoonotic jump more adaptation would be expected.
Basically the best plan is to wear masks when around any human or animal that might be infectious so at least will only have a mild case.
Historian warns ‘desperate’ Trump may launch a war because of his awful poll numbers: ‘Be suspicious’ Michael Beschloss said, “Donald Trump was a reality star in New York and he put out a tweet at 5:39 p.m., October 9, 2012 and that is what he said. He said ‘Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in a tail spin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran.’
So, the guy who established peace in the middle east is going to start a war?! If this is a “Q” conspiracy theory, then good for tech censorship! Although, this kind of satire will die on its own…
Hold your horses ,bucco! Hang onto your peace prize for a minute. “…established peace in the middle east”???? Isn’t that a bit premature? I don’t think Jesus and Mohammed working as a team could establish peace in the middle east, much less Donald J. Trump. Hold your horses, bucco!
This story seems a little far fetched!
They culled one million mink in europe
““We assumed it was possible that it would be transmitted back to people again,” the virus expert said, and that’s what appeared to have happened with at least two of the infected workers.”
Oh my. People are going to ditch their pet minks.
The traitorous mink are in on the hoax!
Actually, if I were a Q follower, I would present this as proof that all mink are Satanic pedophiles and the Deep State’s top representatives in the animal kingdom.
But instead, you’re a brilliant social analyst.
Not familiar with the “Q” thing, but since they are subject to tech censorship, there must be a strong element of truth to it!
You can be thankful that it’s only mink, and cattle doesn’t seem to be affected, or the human race would be in trouble.
However, wild mink has likely more exposure to bats than cattle, and has been monocultured much less, so the question is still out there.