Mounting evidence suggests mink farms in China could be the cradle of Covid-19
Yann Faure et Yves Sciama (Reporterre)
14 janvier 2021 à 09h27,
Mis à jour le 18 janvier 2021 à 09h07
Durée de lecture : 19 minutes
? The «
missing link
» between bats and humans could well be the mink - though the raccoon dog is also suspected. This would explain why China leading world producer of fur appears so determined to tightly control scientific information.
It seems increasingly plausible that Covid-19 originated in fur farms, especially mink, as our investigation shows. At the end of December 2020, Reporterre revealed that the strains responsible for the two epidemic waves that engulfed Europe emerged nearby to a number of large mink farms. Reporterre