Covid-19 can infect a wide range of species, including cats, dogs and mink, experts from the University of East Anglia, University of Minnesota and a research facility at the Earlham Institute have said.
They claim that continued evolution of the virus in animals followed by transmission to humans "poses a significant long-term risk to public health"."It is not unthinkable that vaccination of some domesticated animal species might...
be necessary to curb the spread of the infection," the group said.Last year, Denmark's government culled millions of mink after it was found that hundreds of coronavirus cases in the country were linked with variants of the disease associated with farmed mink.