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The last three French mink farms free from Covid-19

2020-12-09T17:20:48.522Z


The last three French mink farms are " today free " from the Covid-19 disease, detected in November in a fourth farm where the fur animals were slaughtered, the government announced on Wednesday. " A mink farm has been entirely depopulated and the other three are now free from SARS-CoV-2 ", the virus that causes Covid-19, the ministries of Agriculture, Health and of the Ecological Transition. Rea


The last three French mink farms are "

today free

" from the Covid-19 disease, detected in November in a fourth farm where the fur animals were slaughtered, the government announced on Wednesday.

"

A mink farm has been entirely depopulated and the other three are now free from SARS-CoV-2

", the virus that causes Covid-19, the ministries of Agriculture, Health and of the Ecological Transition.

Read also: Let's aim: the Danish government ready to dig up the carcasses

Analyzes have been carried out by the Anses health agency since mid-November, after the detection of numerous cases of contamination in Europe in mink farms, the only animal known to date to be able to be infected with the new coronavirus and recontaminate humans. .

These contaminations led to massive slaughterings, as well as a political crisis in Denmark, where the management of the authorities was criticized and where the Minister of Agriculture ended up resigning.

In early November, the Danish government announced the general slaughter of all mink in the country, because of a problematic mutation of the coronavirus via these mustelids which, according to preliminary studies, could threaten the effectiveness of the future vaccine for humans.

ANSES oversight

This type of mutation was not detected in the only contaminated French farm, specify the ministries Wednesday: "

The sequencing analysis of the virus discovered in the farm of Eure-et-Loir makes it possible to exclude any contamination by the SARS-CoV-2 variant.

"

Local transmission from humans infected with SARS-CoV-2 is the most likely source of contamination in mink in this farm,

" he added.

The government also indicates that ANSES must deliver, by mid-December, its opinion on “

the appropriate procedures for monitoring SARS-Cov-2 infection to be put in place in the three farms, for let's aim as for workers in contact with these animals

”.

Source: lefigaro

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