Dutch ban transport of mink after farm workers infected

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Mink farm workers in the Netherlands were believed to have contracted the coronavirus from minks, which could be the 'first known cases of animal-to-human transmission'.

Dutch authorities on Thursday announced a nationwide ban on the transport of mink after mink farm workers were believed to have contracted coronavirus from the small mammals.

"Until the results of this screening are known," the transport of mink and mink manure will be banned to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, Public Health Minister Hugo de Jonge and Agriculture Minister Carola Schouten said in a letter to parliament. According to the ministers, health authorities consider the risk of contamination"negligible" outside the four Dutch farms where infected mink have been reported.

The health ministry said on Tuesday that three people on the farm tested positive for the virus, but said that it remained unclear if more than one of the cases had come directly from a mink.

 

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