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Vets have said minks may need to be culled over the outbreakA second suspected case of a mink transmitting the coronavirus to a human has been detected in the Netherlands, the country’s agriculture ministry has said.
The infection is believed to have happened at a mink-breeding farm where there had been a virus outbreak among the animals, it said.agriculture minister Carola Schouten wrote in a letter to parliamentThe minister said there was a “negligible” risk of animal-to-human transmission of the virus outside the mink farms.
Last week, the ministry said a farm worker was infected with a coronavirus strain that was genetically similar to one circulating among mink. Since then, vets have expressed concern and fear many of the animals may need to be culled.The first cases of the coronavirus were linked to a market where wild animals were sold in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Most disease experts agree the virus was transmitted to humans by an animal, possibly a bat.
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