Denmark To Kill 17 Million Mink After COVID Mutation Found Tyler Durden Mon, 11/09/2020 - 03:30 Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Danish authorities ordered a month-long closure of bars, restaurants and sports facilities where infected mink farms are located. Danish Government Will Entire Population of Mink Officials fear human-to-mink mutations could be resistant to a vaccine and have Ordered Farms to Kill 17 million Mink. “Studies have shown that the mutations could affect the current candidates for a Covid-19 vaccine,” Danish Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said in a press briefing Wednesday. At least 12 Danes have been infected with a mutated coronavirus connected to mink, the government said. Authorities worry that if the problem isn’t addressed, the mink will build a reservoir of a mutated form of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 that could then be passed on to humans, and be impervious to a vaccine. They fear it could set off a new cluster of infections. “Worst-case scenario is that we have a pandemic that will start all over again, starting from Denmark,” Denmark’s state epidemiologist, Kåre Mølbak, said. From Animal to Humans When initial reports of human-to-cat infections came out, scientists doubted the connection, then generally claimed the reverse was unlikely. Long ago, I asked why? If the virus could go from bats and camels to humans why couldn't it spread from humans to other animals and back? We now know it can.