Christa Lesté-LasserreScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Jens Malmkvist’s life’s work came to a dramatic end this week.
An ethologist at Aarhus University, Malmkvist studies the behavior and welfare of farmed mink, with the aim of giving them a better life as they are raised for fur.
But on Monday and Tuesday, all 6350 minks at the Aarhus facility were gassed as part of a nationwide cull ordered on 4 November by the Danish government.Denmark is seeking to stop the spread of what it deems a dangerous strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that’s circulating in mink and infecting humans as well.