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Re:Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus by mcguire on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @03:25PM (#24992725)
"Coronavirus has been detected at 207 Danish mink farms, Frederiksen said."

1 or 2? Probably no big deal. 10 or 20? Worrying. 207? Yeah, the new strain is probably everywhere, or will be shortly.

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Re:Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus by contravariant on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @06:52PM (#24994318)
Not all of those will be the new strain. The regular strain seems to be capable of infecting minks on its own, where it wreaks havoc on the tightly packed population. The problem is that this adds an entirely different evolutionary pressure that can result in a markedly different virus, which in the worst case can jump back to humans.

This is that worst case.

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