Mink spotted in Kintail near the Skye bridge last week. #mink #wildlifephotography #wildlife #invasivespecies

@WHO

WHY are we still farming mink?

I strongly suspect this whole #pandemic probably started on a #mink farm.

(cc @kirt@mastodon.social other me)

Bird flu outbreak in #mink sparks concern about spread in people

The new variant puts #birdflu in “uncharted territory”, says Wendy Puryear, a #virologist at Tufts University.
Researchers have warned that, unless careful precautions are taken, the #disease might eventually spread among people.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00201-2

#nextPandemic ?

A bird flu outbreak on a Spanish mink farm has alarmed scientists. The virus may be spreading for the first time from mammal to mammal — and could become a danger for humans.

It started in October, when several dead mink were discovered on a farm in northwestern Spain. Tests revealed that the highly pathogenic avian flu virus H5N1 was the culprit.

While farm workers themselves were not infected, the case remains a cause of concern for scientists.

https://www.dw.com/en/scientists-concerned-spread-of-bird-flu-to-mink-signals-growing-threat-to-humans/a-64605019

#Spain #BirdFlu #Mink

@HandgunYoga Farmers gotta farm, of course, but why the hell and where is there still a market for #Mink?

RT @thijskuiken@twitter.com

First known epidemic of highly pathogenic avian #influenza #H5N1 in farmed #mink (52,000 animals) in #Spain, with evidence for mink-to-mink spread of virus. Weekly mortality rate reached up to 4.3%. Clinical picture included bloody snout & nervous signs.

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.3.2300001

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thijskuiken/status/1616130874705166352

A Danish mink farm reinvented as a brewery? It’s real. Poul Erik Vestergaard, a Danish mink farmer, has had to reinvent himself as a beer brewer.

The country's controversial cull of its mink population over Covid fears forced him to swap careers. Alongside his son and a childhood friend, Poul Erik has started brewing beer in his kitchen and, despite the coming end of the ban on mink farming in January, he has no intention of returning to the trade.

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20221228-danish-mink-farmers-reinvent-themselves-as-beer-brewers-after-covid-cull

#Denmark #Mink #Beer

Potential #AnimalReservoirs of #SARSCoV2

Two #mink (#neovision) sequences with sample collection date 10/18/2022 were uploaded to GISAID from #Poland.

Both are AY.4 sequences with typical mink signature mutation Spike #Y453F (one of them also contained S: F486S)

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#Denmark The Danish state prepares to pay up to 2,5 billion Euros to Danish #mink murderers/skinners to cover the industry's losses + debts. Now that we're on the topic:
Will the Danish govt also prohibit the mink murder industry? #dkpol #AnimalRights #Covid19 https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/saadan-ser-minkavlernes-erstatning-ud-de-fleste-vil-faa-en-stoerre-erstatning-end-de