Posted on 04/19/2022 12:33:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The infected people are from Michigan -- two employees of a Michigan mink farm that experienced a coronavirus outbreak in October 2020 -- while the other two had no known links to the farm.
This suggests that the mink variant may have been circulating more widely among area residents at the time, the New York Times reported.
The cluster, which previously included just three cases, represents the first known instance of possible animal-to-human transmission of the virus in the US.
Samples of the virus collected from all four people contained two mutations that scientists have hypothesised may be signs of adaptation to mink, Casey Barton Behravesh, who directs the CDC's One Health Office, told NYT.
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I live in Florida...My buds would buy me a beer if I walked into the watering hole with a mink coat on.
Joe Namath?
I think I still have my father’s Beaver coat, I’ll have to check. I wore it once for a fancy New Years Eve party outing. It’s a bit too nice to use as a car coat.
I’ll bet this is made up.
Asians. And Russians.
IIRC, the “vaccines” killed mink, so they stopped testing them on mink, which have a very similar immune system to humans.
Good points.
As soon as I saw this thread title I thought of Michigan. I live here and actually know someone who was a supervisor at a mink farm. There can’t be too many of them. He said virtually every worker was from south of the border. And filthy conditions.
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