{"id":116476,"date":"2020-11-30T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/over-100-infected-danish-mink-have-escaped-and-could-spread-sars-cov-2-to-wildlife"},"modified":"2020-12-01T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T02:53:09","slug":"over-100-infected-danish-mink-have-escaped-and-could-spread-sars-cov-2-to-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/over-100-infected-danish-mink-have-escaped-and-could-spread-sars-cov-2-to-wildlife","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 Infected Danish Mink Have Escaped And Could Spread SARS-CoV-2 to Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/over-100-infected-danish-mink-have-escaped-and-could-spread-sars-cov-2-to-wildlife.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 100 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SARS-CoV-2\">SARS-CoV-2<\/a> infected mink may have escaped from Danish fur farms, raising the risk that these escapees could spread the novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> to wild animals, creating a new reservoir for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"virus\">virus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/27\/escaped-infected-danish-mink-could-spread-covid-in-wild\"><em>The Guardian<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year, a few thousand mink escape,\u201d and this year, an estimated 5 percent of these escaped animals may have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, Sten Mortensen, veterinary research manager at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/nov\/27\/escaped-infected-danish-mink-could-spread-covid-in-wild\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These mink may be spreading the coronavirus to wild animals, even as millions of mink still on farms are being culled to prevent spread of the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 SARS-CoV-2 infected mink may have escaped from Danish fur farms, raising the risk that these escapees could spread the novel coronavirus to wild animals, creating a new reservoir for the virus, The Guardian reported. \u201cEvery year, a few thousand mink escape,\u201d and this year, an estimated 5 percent of these escaped animals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116516,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116476\/revisions\/116516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}