Mutations that the coronavirus has undergone in mink herds, such as lizards, vultures, and pus, can pose a risk to human health in the development of vaccines. A Danish vaccine specialist has warned that a new wave of coronavirus could start again due to the coronavirus mutation in mink.
"The worst case scenario is that we would start a new pandemic in Denmark. "There is a risk that this mutated virus will be so different that we will have to put new things in the vaccine and therefore [the mutation] will take us back to the beginning of the pandemic," said Prof. Kåre Mølbak, vaccine expert and director. of Infectious Diseases at the State Serum Institute, a state institute in Denmark aimed at preventing and combating infectious diseases.
Denmark announced on Wednesday that it would destroy more than 15 million animals for fear that the Covid-19 mutation in mink would infect humans en masse and jeopardize vaccines.
Announcing the decision, the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said 12 people had already been infected with the mutated virus and mink was considered a public health risk.
Burimet: Copenhagen Post, Guardian
