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Concerns COVID-19 has ‘gone to minks and then come back to humans’

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AMA Vice President Chris Moy says cases of COVID-19 found in Demark linked to farmed minks serve as a “warning sign” after the World Health Organisation identified a cluster which had a “combination of mutations”.

“Initially, the thought is that COVID-19 came from an animal and it’s come to humans,” Dr Moy told Sky News.

“The concern is it’s actually gone to minks and then come back to humans, and, in the process, the worry has been that there might have been some change to the virus, some mutation to the virus, that may either effect it in terms of its ability for a vaccine, for example, to work later or that it could change – either become more serious or less serious, more infective or less infective.

“It’s just a bit of a warning sign to some degree, even though the party line has been that the virus has not mutated or changed into strains.”

The WHO said 214 human cases of COVID-19 had been identified in Denmark with “SARS-CoV-2 variants associated with farmed minks”, including 12 cases with a unique variant.

“Initial observations suggest that the clinical presentation, severity and transmission among those infected are similar to that of other circulating SARS-CoV-2 viruses,” the WHO said.

“However, this variant, referred to as the ‘cluster 5’ variant, had a combination of mutations, or changes that have not been previously observed.

“Preliminary findings indicate that this particular mink-associated variant identified in both minks and the 12 human cases has moderately decreased sensitivity to neutralising antibodies.”
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