PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (471): animal, Denmark, mink, zoonotic, eradication

COVID-19 — Denmark
Denmark will cull its entire herd of up to 17 million mink after a mutation of the coronavirus found in the animals spread to humans, posing risk to any possible future vaccine, the prime minister said on Wednesday [4 Nov 2020].
Outbreaks at mink farms have persisted in the Nordic country, [which shares with China the top of the world’s mink industry], despite repeated efforts to cull infected herds since June [2020].
Health authorities found virus strains in humans and in mink that