Coronavirus outbreaks at mink farms in Spain and the Netherlands have scientists digging into how the animals got infected and weather they can spread it to people.
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After the Dutch outbreaks began in April, professor Wim van der Poel, a veterinarian who studies viruses at Wageningen University & Research, determined that the virus strain in the animals is similar to the one circulating among humans.“We assumed it was possible that it would be transmitted back to people again,” the virus expert said, and that’s what appeared to have happened with at least two of the infected workers.
“With the evidence for farmed mink-to-human transmission, we definitely need to be concerned with the potential for domesticated animals that are infected to pass on their infection to us,” Ostfeld said by email.
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