France - Coronavirus outbreak in a minkfarm - media

[Gert van der Hoek]

Coronavirus. France. Virus outbreak on one of the mink farms


French experts have discovered an outbreak of coronavirus on a mink farm in the Eure-et-Loir department in central France. All animals will be killed.

On the farm, one of four such farms in France, there are about 1,000 mink. All animals will be killed and their remains disposed of, the French Ministry of Agriculture informed on Sunday.

[Gert van der Hoek]

A first farm of mink contaminated with Covid-19 in France, the 1,000 animals slaughtered

This type of contamination of mink by SARS-CoV-2 has been observed mainly in Denmark, but also in other European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden.

France has just detected for the first time the presence of Covid-19 in a mink farm, in Eure-et-Loir, the ministries of agriculture, health and ecological transition announced on Sunday.
"The slaughter of all 1,000 animals still present on the farm and the elimination of products from these animals" was ordered, they explain in their press release. Of the four mink farms in France, one is unharmed and "analyzes are still underway in the last two" , the results of which are expected during the week.

The French government stressed on Sunday the importance of barrier gestures in this context: to protect mink from contamination from farm staff, but also, as a precaution, avoid contact between possibly infected animals and staff.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-mink-coronavirus-mutation-b1759977.html

France culls 1,000 mink after discovering mutated coronavirus in farm


No mink farmer tested positive to mink-related coronavirus in France so far

France has ordered the culling of one thousand minks after lab analyses detected a mutated version of the coronavirus in one farm.

All animals at a farm in the Eure-et-Loire region of Western France will be culled and all animal products will be eliminated, the French government said in a statement published on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture.

[Gert van der Hoek]

France rules out mutated coronavirus in mink farm case

PARIS (Reuters) - A coronavirus outbreak detected last month on a mink farm in France did not involve a mutated strain of the virus, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.

Denmark’s discovery of a variant form of the novel coronavirus that passed from humans to mink and back to humans led the country to slaughter all of its 17 million farmed mink.

The outbreak in France led the authorities to cull all the animals at the mink farm in the Eure-et-Loir region southwest of Paris.

“Sequencing analysis of the virus discovered in the Eure-et-Loir farm allows us to exclude any contamination by a variant of SARS-COV-2,” the agriculture ministry said in a statement.

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