Farmers were recently sent papers telling them to cull their herds by 16 November but some have refused to co-operate. But Martin From says with coronavirus spreading between farms he cannot afford to wait. "We are just carrying on. it makes no difference. " Is this the end of the mink business in Denmark? Denmark is home to more than 1, 000 farms, so the head of trade body Kopenhagen Fur has termed the nationwide cull a disaster. "It is a de facto permanent closure and liquidation of the fur industry, " said its chairman, Tage Pedersen, who predicted 6, 000 jobs could be affected. The industry had a reported turnover of almost $1bn (£750m) in 2018-19. Furs are sold to the garment industry but also used in some false eyelash products. China and Hong Kong in particular provide the biggest market. image caption Denmark's mink are usually killed at this time of year for their fur Coronavirus outbreaks have already spelled the end of the mink industry in the Netherlands. The UK and Austria banned fur production years ago, Germany has phased it out and Belgium, France and Norway plan to as well.
Then came the order for a mass cull last Wednesday and a four-week lockdown for people living in the northwest of the country. "Mutation happens all the time, but once in a while these mutations happen in the spike protein, " says Prof Anders Fomsgaard, SSI's head of virus research. That spike protein of the coronavirus is the target of some vaccines in development. "So we are a little nervous once we see mutations that change amino acids and the shape of this protein, " he tells the BBC. 'Cluster 5' Covid-19 originally came from a wild animal, it was then transmitted to humans and, later, passed on to farmed mink, before jumping back to a small number of humans. Several different mutations have been discovered in the virus in mink that do not arise in humans. But one called "Cluster 5" is of particular concern and 12 people are known to have caught it in Denmark. More than 200 other people have contracted other mink-related strains of the virus. Prof Fomsgaard stresses that the worry about a vaccine is hypothetical so far.
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But tests have found that patient antibodies responded less well to Cluster 5 and further laboratory investigations are being carried out. "We are working hard to find if this has any biological effects and vaccine issues. Therefore we have to look into it immediately before this potential problem grows. " The infections have attracted widespread international attention, and prompted the UK to ban travellers from Denmark. media caption Critics and supporters of the fur trade speak out However there's also concern that Denmark may have overreacted and scientists at home and abroad have tried to assess the risk. While scientists told Denmark's Berlingske Tidende newspaper that Cluster 5 had not been detected since September, the head of Denmark's health authority, Soren Brostrom, said the risk was too great when the virus was spreading among the mink population. 'Mistakes have been made' The government admitted on Tuesday it lacked the legal framework for a nationwide order and only had jurisdiction to cull infected mink or herds within a safety radius.
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Denmark, the world's largest producer of mink furs, plans to cull all mink in the country to contain a mutated form of novel coronavirus. © HENNING BAGGER/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Ima Minks are seen at a farm in Gjol, northern Denmark on October 9. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Wednesday the decision had been made with a "heavy heart, " but it was necessary based on the recommendation of health authorities. "The virus has mutated in mink. The mutated virus has spread to humans, " Frederiksen said. Statens Serum Institut, the Danish authority based in Copenhagen which deals with infectious diseases, had found five cases of the virus in mink farms and 12 examples in humans that showed reduced sensitivity to antibodies, she said. Allowing the virus to spread could potentially limit the effectiveness of future vaccines. "We have a great responsibility towards our own population, but with the mutation that has now been found, we have an even greater responsibility for the rest of the world as well, " Frederiksen said.