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The ministry says all mink farms in B.C. are taking part in an enhanced surveillance and testing program to monitor for COVID-19.
“A plan is in place to provide feed and care to the mink during the outbreak that respects the conditions of the quarantine and maintains both worker and mink safety,” the statement says.
There are about 1,000 minks on the second farm, while the first farm where animals contracted the virus that causes COVID-19 has 15,000 animals.
The ministry says the locations of the farms will not be released.
Denmark, the world’s largest supplier of mink fur, decided last month to cull all of its farmed minks, about 15 million animals.
The World Health Organization said then that the decision was made after it was determined it wasn’t possible to stop the spread of the infection from farm to farm, or from animals to humans.
Spain culled about 100,000 farmed minks, and in the U.S., about 10,000 minks in Utah died as the virus spread across farms.
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