CORONAVIRUS-infected mink have spread the bug to two people in Europe’s first possible cases of animal-to-human transmission, warn officials in the Netherlands. “Of course the original source…
CORONAVIRUS-infected mink have spread the bug to two people in Europe's first possible cases of animal-to-human transmission, warn officials in the Netherlands.
The mink, which were tested after showing signs of having trouble breathing, were believed to have been infected by employees who had the virus, the agriculture ministry said. Carola Schouten admitted that earlier advisories from her office that people could infect animals, but not the other way around, was wrong.
Schouten repeated that the country’s health department believes the risk of animal-to-human transmission of the virus outside the farms on which they are kept is “negligible".On three of the four infected properties, the source of infection has been shown to be a sick human, while the fourth is still under investigation, the minister said.
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