COVID-19 outbreak at a mink farm in B.C.’s Fraser Valley has the farming community on edge.Health officials have not revealed the name of the farm, but Fraser Health on Sunday confirmed eight employees there had tested positive for the virus.Millions of mink have been culled in countries such as Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark after a strain of the virus was passed from humans to mink, then back to humans in a mutated form.“Some mink will test positive but really show no symptoms at all and seem fine.
Others will be sick and some will die,” Alan Herscovici from the Canada Mink Breeders Association told Global News Monday.“So of course it’s a concern for the farmers to try and protect their herds.”[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter.