CDC: Michigan taxidermist may have caught COVID-19 from infected mink

[Shiloh]

Source: https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2021/04/29/mink-michigan-covid-coronavirus/7400913002/


CDC: Michigan taxidermist may have caught COVID-19 from infected mink
Derek Kravitz and Bianca Fortis, Brown Institute for Media Innovation; Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press

A Michigan taxidermist who got infected with COVID-19 is at the center of a medical mystery that borders on the bizarre: Did he get infected by a mink ? the animal susceptible to the virus and farmed for its fur ? or a human?

Medical experts have, so far, been unable to answer that question, though records obtained in a joint Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state and county health investigation show a potential link to a nearby mink farm.

In early February, a taxidermist living in Eaton County, became infected with COVID-19. A sample from his positive test result was sent to the state lab to be genetically sequenced ? and came back as connected to a mutation of the virus found in infected mink, whose fur is used for coats and clothing.

And yet the taxidermist had no known exposure to a Michigan mink farm where two employees had become infected with a mink-associated strain months earlier, suggesting he was infected in the community, according to the CDC.

?Because there are few genetic sequences available from the communities around the farm, it is impossible to know for sure whether the mutations came from mink on the farm or were already circulating in the community,? the CDC said in a statement to the Documenting COVID-19 project at Columbia University?s Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Free Press...

 

[bertrand789]

It's all in the article. If breeding has always been the best source of knowledge, in relation to pets and / or wild animals, this can only be done if the right thing is done on time.
Some countries considered that the breeding of a non-local animal in view of the surveillance costs was not of interest.

Here we are talking about a farm in the country of origin, so I expected to be able to access the farm monitoring rules in place with the cost of monitoring in a country where there is an uncontrolled epidemic and which abuses the vaccines that complicate the situation for hospitals and farms ...

For years research on African swine fever has been entrusted to x or y units in Africa, with the success that we know. Except that when this pathogen reached Europe, what should have been done.

So, it will be a pleasure to read what the USA will do for their farms with what monitoring costs financed by whom, knowing that such farms exist in places where the epidemic is under control.

The intervention of the C.D.C or other without clarification of the modes of financing could be perceived as, at the level of the rules of the O.M.S., like disturbances of competition.

For those who are surprised by my words, it has been like that in breeding since the dawn of time and that will not change ...

 

[bertrand789]

it has been used from TCR tests:
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%81%9A%E5%90%88%E9%85%B6%E9%93%BE%E5%BC%8F%E5%8F%8D%E5 % BA% 94
but also whole genome sequencing tests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_genome_sequencing

which gives some form of identity to the virus or whatever.

This has implications for the movement of people and animals.

For example: how do we get to and from the United Nations?

It is in NewYork, the O.M.S. is committed on protocols or?