Mass culling of minks to protect the COVID-19 vaccines: is it rational?

The Danish Government announced the culling of 17 million minks in rearing after the report of mink-specific mutations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in humans. The rationale behind this decision is that these mutations might negatively impact the deployment of anti-coronavirus d...

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Autores principales: Frutos, R., Devaux, C.A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33224506
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100816
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spelling pubmed-76708992020-11-18 Mass culling of minks to protect the COVID-19 vaccines: is it rational? Frutos, R. Devaux, C.A. New Microbes New Infect Letter to the Editor The Danish Government announced the culling of 17 million minks in rearing after the report of mink-specific mutations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in humans. The rationale behind this decision is that these mutations might negatively impact the deployment of anti-coronavirus disease 2019 vaccines. Is it a precautionary attitude or a panic-driven overreaction? Elsevier 2020-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7670899/ /pubmed/33224506 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100816 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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