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Tag: cluster 5

Preprint: Cluster 5 mink variant demonstrated a reduced sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies in convalescent plasma samples

In Denmark, SARS-CoV-2 variants co-circulating in mink and humans collectively acquired at least 35 different amino acid changes in the spike protein.  More...

July 1, 2021July 2, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Animals, B.1.1.298, Coronavirus, Denmark, Europe, Health, Infection, Mink, Reservoir, Science, Testing, Transmission, Y453F, Zoonosis

Poland: new push to ban mink farming in the EU to prevent coronavirus mutations

The  Polish agriculture ministry stated that minks pose a threat of “an uncontrolled spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the formation of dangerous mutations because they are significantly susceptible to infection by this virus”.  More...

July 1, 2021August 8, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Animals, Coronavirus, Europe, Health, Infection, Mink, Poland, Reservoir, Y453F

Sweden: Farmed mink outbreaks saw mink infecting humans with coronavirus

A majority of genome sequences from human cases had clear phylogenetic relationships to sequences recovered from mink samples.  More...

June 16, 2021July 18, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Animals, B.1.1.39, Coronavirus, Europe, Health, Infection, Mink, Mutation, PCR, Reinfection, Reservoir, Science, Sweden, Testing, Transmission, Y453F, Zoonosis

Denmark: Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus spike mutations arising in Danish mink – the Cluster 5 report

This study investigates the amino acid changes in the spike surface glycoprotein that appeared during this outbreak [in mink] and their effect on the antigenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.  More...

May 19, 2021July 18, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Animals, Coronavirus, Denmark, Europe, Health, Infection, Mink, Reservoir, Science, Testing, Transmission, Y453F

North Jutland waste company wants to burn Denmark’s culled coronavirus infected mink after they have been exhumed

The task of digging up Denmark’s 17 million culled mink and burning them has been put out to tender.  More...

April 12, 2021June 26, 2021 Coronaheadsup.com Animals, Coronavirus, Denmark, Europe, Health, Infection, Mink, Reservoir, Science, Transmission

Denmark: Contamination from the mink graves must be removed due to coronavirus

Contamination from the mink graves must be removed.

Substances from buried mink have been found under the mink graves, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency’s pollution investigation.  More...

March 5, 2021July 18, 2022 Coronaheadsup.com Animals, Coronavirus, Denmark, Europe, Health, Infection, Mink, Mutation, Reservoir, Testing
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