Health Oregon mink farm has COVID-19 outbreak, after advocates warned of danger in state

[tom_mai78101]

SALEM, Ore. – An Oregon mink farm has reported an outbreak of COVID-19 among animals and workers.

Oregon Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Andrea Cantu-Schomus declined to say which county the farm is in or how many workers have tested positive, citing federal health privacy rules. The farm has about 12,000 animals, she said.

Oregon has the nation’s fourth-largest farmed mink industry, after Wisconsin, Utah and Michigan. All three of those other states have had outbreaks on mink farms.

ODA took samples from 10 of the sick mink, and all came back positive for SARS-CoV-2, the animal virus linked to COVID-19 in humans. Cantu-Schomus was unable to say how many mink were sick, but said the 10 were a sample of the population.

Read more here. (USA Today)

 

[Varine]

I wasn't aware there were mink farms. That's like a weasel/ferret thing that steals shit yeah?

 

[The Helper]

They make coats out of the fur. Mink Coats very high end and expensive. They are like real soft furry ferrets.