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.
(Excerpt) Read more at business-standard.com ...
Are the infected now growing rich, luxuriant pelts of hair on their bodies? 🤷♂️
Mink variant we are doomed ..
No, just an intense craving for fish.
Mink variant? :facepalm: :eyeroll:
Who wears mink any more?
I thought it was out of style with the Hollywood types?................
biden proved the kung flu is a scam when he waltzed into the white house, disbanded trump’s “operation warp speed”, opened our southern border, and continues to spread over 2,000,000 nondocumented unvaccinated invaders across our country during a supposed “global pandemic” while anthony fauci, the cdc, the nih, the world health organization, the enemedia, hollywierd, and the majority of our elected representatives sit back and watch...
I’ll wait for the Ermine variant..................
I hear the chinchilla variant will kill ya…
Wasn’t there a show one time called mink and Mindy? Or was it Mork and Minky?
There was an alien if I recall correctly.
No, not My Favorite Martian.
5.56mm
My mom liked to be seen in mink back in the 50s and 60s.
If only they were just “sitting back and watching.” They are determined to stamp out freedom and plant their jackboots on our faces forever.
The thrilla killa is chinchilla..................
I dunno, if I got COVID, the last thing I would do is wear a mink coat.
As an old redneck conservative, if I had a Mink coat I’d wear it everywhere I went—summer and winter.
My mother had a overcoat with a mink collar, back in the 60’s-70’s. Once we moved to Florida she didn’t get much chance to wear it anywhere............
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