Nearly 10,000 minks — creatures known for their luxurious, silky pelts — have died from Covid-19 in the past two weeks at nine fur farms in Utah.
Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP via Getty Images fileThousands of farmed minks in Utah have died of Covid-19, forcing affected sites to quarantine as the state veterinarian investigates the outbreak.
Nearly 10,000 minks — creatures known for their luxurious, silky pelts — have died in the past two weeks at nine fur farms in Utah, as of Friday morning, Dean Taylor, state veterinarian, told NBC News. The virus was discovered among the animals in the U.S. earlier in August, shortly after ranch workers tested positive, he said.
Taylor said that while research suggests people with Covid-19 can infect animals, transmission the other way around is “considered low.”
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