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Mink - BostonCard - 11-04-2020
[tweet]https://twitter.com/GertvanderHoek/status/1324008256927391746?s=20[/tweet]
Mink can carry coronavirus and transmit it to humans. That's bad enough, but apparently, the virus mutated in mink and the mutated version, when transmitted to humans, may decreased antibody affinity (not specified if that is natural immunity or manufactured monocolonal antibody cocktails, but probably both). So Denmark is culling its entire Mink population.
BC
RE: Mink - fullmetal - 11-05-2020
I'm surprised this hasn't happened already. We've known about the mink carrier population since March, I thought.
RE: Mink - magnus - 11-05-2020
(11-05-2020, 05:50 AM)fullmetal Wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't happened already. We've known about the mink carrier population since March, I thought.
But did we know it they could infect humans, and worse, much much worse, we surely didn't know the virus could mutate in them and become less responsive to antibodies. I figure that last one is what forced them into action.
Don't cats also get infected by the coronavirus?
RE: Mink - BostonCard - 11-05-2020
(11-05-2020, 12:40 PM)magnus Wrote:(11-05-2020, 05:50 AM)fullmetal Wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't happened already. We've known about the mink carrier population since March, I thought.
But did we know it they could infect humans, and worse, much much worse, we surely didn't know the virus could mutate in them and become less responsive to antibodies. I figure that last one is what forced them into action.
Don't cats also get infected by the coronavirus?
Transmission from mink to humans had been confirmed previously, but a mutation that reduced antibody protection is new.
BC
RE: Mink - fullmetal - 11-06-2020
Agreed with BC. And yes, I remember reading about cats carrying covid, but I don't remember reading about confirmed transmission from cat to human...
RE: Mink - Genuine Realist - 11-06-2020
(11-06-2020, 10:29 AM)fullmetal Wrote: Agreed with BC. And yes, I remember reading about cats carrying covid, but I don't remember reading about confirmed transmission from cat to human...I am surprised there has not been more PETA reaction to this.
RE: Mink - BostonCard - 11-06-2020
I think people have made the moral claim that we shouldn't have been raising mink for fur to begin with. Not sure it has come from PETA though, but a quick Google search has suggested that PETA has issued some strongly worded press releases about.
BC
RE: Mink - OutsiderFan - 11-06-2020
PETA seems to favor killing the minks over keeping them alive to continue having a fur industry.
This Mink issue demonstrates how f*cked we are if we don't get control of the virus. We are heading down a path of not being able to effectively vaccinate against it, like influenza, because it is going to mutate too much. Hopefully Denmark's draconian measures work.
This week for the first time I considered the possibility that we might need to wear masks for the rest of our lives when around others, as not some insane notion, but a real possibility. IOW, everyone wear a mask and distance for two months, or face the possibility of never being safe without a mask ever again.
RE: Mink - fullmetal - 11-06-2020
I don't think that dystopian future is likely. A vaccine will come out, and even if the virus mutates, remember that the coronavirus family as a whole mutates much more slowly than the flu virus, so even if we have a different coronavirus season each year (as with the flu), the vaccines produced each year will generally be more effective.
Having said that, this hinges on the initial vaccines actually conferring decent protective benefits. If vaccinated individuals fight off infection and survive at 100% but still suffer long-term health effects, we're still kind of in trouble.
RE: Mink - BostonCard - 12-16-2020
Well, if you had wild mink in Utah catching COVID-19 on your 2020 bingo card, you win.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/12/wild-mink-tests-positive-coronavirus-utah/
Quote:In the U.S., coronavirus outbreaks have been documented at 16 mink farms in Utah, Wisconsin, Oregon, and Michigan, with the most cases in Utah. But until now, no wild mink cases had been detected, despite ongoing testing of mink, raccoons, skunks, and other animals around farms with infections.
Perhaps we shouldn't be farming mink... just a thought.
BC