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2 Min Read COPENHAGEN, May 28 (Reuters) - Denmark this week began incinerating 4 million mink that had been culled to curb COVID-19 mutations but began to resurface from mass burial sites, prompting renewed health concerns. The Danish government last year decided to cull all of the country’s 17 million mink to curb a COVID-19 mutation and because the mammal was considered likely to host future mutations. Some were buried in pits in a military area in western Denmark under two metres of soil only for some to resurface in less than a month. Contaminants were later found under the graves in an examination carried out on behalf of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, prompting the government to order the incineration of the the animals.

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