This animal has just tested positive for coronavirus in the United States.
This is the last in a list of animals that have been tested positive for the virus, including cats and dogs.
While the number of coronavirus cases is staggering-5.4 million in the United States. Only humans are not the only ones to whom the disease is affected by the disease. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been many reports ofPets Contracting the Virus, tigers at the zoo bronx at domestic animals, likecats and dogs. And now, a new animal has been positive for Covid in the United States:mink.
According to a report of August 17 of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),POSITIVE MINKS OF COVID Have been discovered on two distinct farms of Utah. The USDA indicates that the farms had experienced an unusually high number of visions deaths, pushing them to test livestock for the virus.
Visions have already been positive for coronaviruses outside the United States, as well as June, the virus had infectedFarms to 12 go to the NetherlandsAnd an epidemic had been reported in a mink farm in Spain.
Disease and Prevention Control Centers (CDC) reports that dogs and cats that havePositive tested for coronavirus The United States has probably been infected with humans and no definitive proof suggests only the opposite is possible. But some infectious experts of the disease say that the aim can be able to pass Covid on humans.
In a document from June 2020 published inEurosurveillance, the authors, who studied the Dutch coronavirus epidemic in the screws, concluded that a worker on one of the affected farms wasprobably infected with animals.
In a statement toThe Washington Post,Richard Ostfeld, a researcher from the Cary Institute of New York for ecosystem studies, said that the indication of the transmission of visiting visits is disturbing. "We must certainly be concerned about the potential of infected domestic animals attransmit their infection to us," he said.
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However, without any known cases of addressing the transmission of coronavirus vis-à-vis moisture, US officials have been hesitant to call animals a threat. "There is currently no evidence that animals, including the vison, play an important role inspread the virus to humans, "writes the USDA. They note that, in general, the risk of animals that transmit the coronavirus to the man" considered weak "and for more things on how to fulfill the virus, checkDr. Fauci begs you to do it "as much as you may be" right now.
