No infections have so far been confirmed in the country’s minks throughout the pandemic. In Finland, farms operate under strict lockdowns and close surveillance. Denmark last year culled 17 million animals after concerns emerged that a mutated form of the virus was spreading through its farms, and there’s evidence from the Netherlands the virus can jump between humans and mink. Mink are known to be particularly susceptible to the virus. It’s the first such program in the European Union. The Nordic nation has about half a million doses of a domestically developed vaccine ready to be deployed this winter, enough to protect the entire population of breeding minks from COVID-19. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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