COVID-19 taken from a B.C. mink farm with an outbreak of the virus.At least 17 workers and their contacts and five mink at the farm, which has not been publicly identified, have tested positive for the virus.
Another 200 mink died at the site.On Wednesday, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control said samples of the virus were examined by both its own Public Health Laboratory, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease Laboratory in Winnipeg.“One common mutation was detected in both the animals and the farm workers,” said the BCCDC.
Hundreds of mink dead from COVID-19 on Fraser Valley farm in B.C. “This mutation is not in the spike protein of the coronavirus and has been reported in mink previously..