Sweden - Covid-19 detected in mink and minkworkers

[Gert van der Hoek]

23 October 2020

Several minks have tested positive for the coronavirus on a mink farm in S?lvesborg in Blekinge. People on the farm have also been found infected. The Swedish Veterinary Institute is now investigating how the virus spreads among the animals.

[Gert van der Hoek]

The first confirmed the case of the new coronavirus in mink in Sweden


Last updated: 2020-10-23


The positive minks were discovered in the disease surveillance regarding Sars-CoV-2 in Swedish minks that has begun. The reason is the development in the Netherlands and Denmark, where a large number of mink herds have been confirmed infected with the virus. Mink farms in Sweden have therefore been asked to send dead minks to SVA for sampling and analysis.

In the now established positive herd that is located in S?lvesborg municipality in Blekinge county, a certain increased mortality has been seen, but otherwise the animals have not shown any noticeable symptoms of disease. This is in line with experience from the Netherlands and Denmark, where the majority of infected establishments have been identified through disease surveillance based on sampling of dead animals.

[Gert van der Hoek]

More mink herds infected with coronavirus


Last updated: 2020-11-05


Another nine mink herds have been found infected with Sars-CoV-2. The crews are located in the same area as Sweden's first confirmed case, in S?lvesborg municipality in Blekinge county. All 18 crews in the area have been sampled.

- That nearby crews are affected is not surprising, according to experience from the Netherlands and Denmark. We also know that the risk of further falls in the area is great. The majority of the minks kept for fur production will be killed in November to be furred, says H?kan Henrikson, chief veterinarian at the Swedish Board of Agriculture.

We follow developments in Denmark and have considered the basis for the decision to kill all minks in the country. However, the situation in Sweden differs from that in Denmark. Sweden has a small mining industry with relatively few companies and a limited number of animals. This affects the risk that the scenario seen in Denmark will be repeated in Sweden as well.

About 80 percent of the minks kept for fur production in Sweden are killed during the month of November for fur. Only the breeding animals remain.

[Gert van der Hoek]

Sweden finds coronavirus in mink industry workers

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden’s health agency said on Thursday a number of people who work in the mink industry had tested positive for the coronavirus.

Authorities are analysing virus from the infected people and from infected minks to see if there is a link between the strains, the health agency said in a statement.

It did not specify how many people had tested positive.

[Gert van der Hoek]

Corona cases in the Swedish mink industry under scrutiny

Several mink farms in Blekinge have been affected by corona outbreaks - and after several people working in the Swedish industry have been infected, authorities are now investigating whether the infection can be linked to the animals.

The Swedish Public Health Agency, the Swedish Veterinary Institute, the Swedish Board of Agriculture and local infection control units are investigating whether there is a connection between the strains of the virus found in minks and humans, the Swedish Public Health Agency writes in a press release.

On October 23, the first corona fall was found in Swedish mink. On 5 November, the infection was found to have spread to another nine farms and at the end of last week it turned out that three more farms had been affected - all in Blekinge. In the rest of Sweden, there are another 20 or so mink breeders, but so far infected minks have only been found in Blekinge.

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Sweden bans mink breeding in 2021 in fight against coronavirus pandemic


Wednesday, 27 Jan 2021 08:52 PM MYT
Sweden recorded coronavirus cases at several mink farms, although authorities said in December the animals had not been found to carry the mutated strain as evident in Denmark.
STOCKHOLM, Jan 27 — Sweden will ban breeding of mink in 2021 to prevent the risk of mutations of the coronavirus spreading to humans, the government said today.

Neighbour Denmark, one of the world’s biggest producers of fur for the fashion industry, slaughtered its entire herd of around 17 million mink in November after hundreds of farms suffered outbreaks of coronavirus and authorities found mutated strains of the virus among people.

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