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Canada - 8 people test positive in COVID-19 outbreak at mink farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley - December 6, 2021
Canada - 8 people test positive in COVID-19 outbreak at mink farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley - December 6, 2021
Animals at the farm also being tested for the virus
CBC News ? Posted: Dec 06, 2020 6:48 PM PT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
... "Under the B.C. Animal Health Act, the mink farm has been ordered to restrict the transport of animals, products and goods from the farm," said the statement.
Eight people have tested positive for COVID-19 amid an outbreak at a mink farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley east of Vancouver.
Fraser Health Authority said in a written statement Sunday the farm operators and staff who tested positive are isolating, as are their close contacts.
The statement did not say how the virus was transmitted, but employees are undergoing screening and officials are conducting contract tracing. Animals at the farm are also being tested for the virus.
In the meantime, the mink farm has been ordered to restrict the transport of animal, products and goods from the farm, the health authority statement said.
In a statement, B.C.'s Agriculture Ministry said the outbreak is limited to one farm in the Fraser Valley. It said samples from some mink are being sent to the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg for testing.
Millions of minks were culled in Denmark last month after 11 people were sickened by a mutated version of the coronavirus that had been observed among the animals.
The Danish government moved to cull all of Denmark's roughly 15 million minks, including healthy ones outside the northern part of the country where infections were found. It has also banned mink farming until the end of 2021.
Minks at farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley test positive for coronavirus
Five mink samples at a farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans, fuelling concerns of possible new mutations of the coronavirus.
Health officials sent the mink samples for testing to the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has been notified of the results under international reporting requirements.
Minks are ferret-like animals that are farmed around the world for their fur. As of 2017, there were more than 200 farms across Canada.
Five mink samples at a?farm in?B.C.'s Fraser Valley have?tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans, fuelling?concerns of possible new mutations of the coronavirus.?
?Addressing chronic disease is an issue of human rights ? that must be our call to arms"
Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief The Lancet
At least 200 mink dead after COVID-19 outbreak at B.C. fur farm
Melanie Nagy
Vancouver Bureau Chief, CTV National News
Andrew Weichel
Producer, CTVNewsVancouver.ca
Published Friday, December 11, 2020 5:33PM PST Last Updated Friday, December 11, 2020 5:47PM PST
VANCOUVER -- At least 200 mink are dead following a COVID-19 outbreak at a fur farm in B.C.'s Fraser Valley.
While the coronavirus is the likely cause of death, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Agriculture told CTV News that testing is still underway.
The 200 dead animals represent about 1.3 per cent of the roughly 15,000 mink on the farm, and it's unclear how many others may have caught the virus.
"The majority of the mink on the farm do not appear to be showing symptoms, and we understand (the) mortality rate has slowed in recent days," the ministry said in an emailed statement.
The government has refused to divulge the name of the farm, unlike a number of poultry plants and other B.C. businesses that have experienced outbreaks. On Friday, the ministry cited "public safety reasons" for the decision to keep the company name private.
Last weekend, the local health authority confirmed eight workers at the farm had tested positive for COVID-19. The property has since been placed under quarantine.
Dr. Jan Hajek, an infectious disease specialist from the University of British Columbia, told CTV News the transmission of coronavirus between humans and animals is "very concerning," noting mutations that were detected at a mink farm in Denmark.
While the virus already mutates going between humans, Hajek said bringing mink into the equation is an added concern.
"The risk is that it replicates through these mink and then comes back to us as a new infection, or an alternative infection, perhaps similar to influenza where you have bird flu or swine flu," Hajek said.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry raised similar concerns at her COVID-19 briefing on Monday.
Given the possible risks, Hajek suggested that culling the animals, as Denmark did some 17 million mink last month, would "make sense."...
I hope that the geneticists are on the bridge, because if some evoke that is due to the concentration of the breeding, the other hypothesis is the choices of genetic selection.
Genetic analysis finds no concerning mutations in coronavirus affecting B.C. mink farm
Ian Holliday
Reporter, CTVNewsVancouver.ca
Published Thursday, December 24, 2020 10:12AM PST Last Updated Thursday, December 24, 2020 12:03PM PST
VANCOUVER -- Genetic analysis of the coronavirus found in humans and animals at a mink farm in the Fraser Valley has shown no concerning mutations, according to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
Researchers performed "whole genome sequencing" on the strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, found in five mink and five humans at the beginning of the outbreak at the B.C. mink farm, the BCCDC said in a news release Wednesday.
"The results show the people and animals were infected with an identical or nearly identical strain," the centre said in its release. "The strain detected has been circulating in people in B.C., indicating COVID-19 spread from people to animals and not the other way around."
Researchers did find one common mutation in both the animals and the farm workers, but the mutation was not in the virus' spike protein, as has been reported in other mink farm outbreaks around the world....
B.C. mink farmer decides to kill 1,000 animals after positive COVID-19 tests
Two mink farms in B.C. are currently under quarantine
The Canadian Press
Publishing date:
Jan 05, 2021 • Last Updated 3 hours ago • 1 minute read
British Columbia’s chief veterinarian says a mink farmer decided to euthanize the remaining 1,000 animals on his Fraser Valley operation after some of the mink tested positive for COVID-19.
Dr. Rayna Gunvaldsen says the operator was not ordered by the provincial government to euthanize the animals as more tests are underway to determine the extent of the presence of COVID-19.
The first farm where the virus spread to mink also had eight workers who tested positive and Gunvaldsen says both farms remain under quarantine.
She says there are no other reports of COVID-19 at B.C.’s eight other mink farms...
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