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Midwestern mink farms navigate COVID fears Animal vaccine possible after outbreaks kill 5,500 on Wisconsin fur farms. February 16, 2021 8:09pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A rash of COVID deaths of farmed mink in Wisconsin last fall raised alarms that the operations could spread the virus to wild animals or even create dangerous new variants, similar to a variant that led the Danish government to order all mink in the country killed last year to prevent a major outbreak.
Veterinarians in Wisconsin and Minnesota say they don t see cause for alarm, but also acknowledge that there are still plenty of unknowns. It does concern me anytime you have a disease that can go from people to animals and then back to people again, said veterinarian Dr. Gail R. Hansen, a consulting vet with the Humane Society and the former Kansas state epidemiologist.
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Question of the Day By KATE GOLDEN of Wisconsin Watch - Associated Press - Saturday, February 6, 2021
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The first sign of trouble was that the mink stopped eating, said Hugh Hildebrandt, one of two main mink vets in Wisconsin. Next came coughing and sneezing, lethargy and labored breathing. Hildebrandt had worked with mink for 30 years. He wrote the Merck Veterinary Manual section on mink. But he had never seen anything like this.
Captive mink have a flu season in the fall, just like people - they get it from us, in fact. But what appeared in the two Taylor County, Wisconsin, mink farms that saw outbreaks in October was not flu, which tends to sicken the weakest animals. This took out the strongest mink, the mature adult females.
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