Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Day 278: Mink Mutation

The world is at 48 million coronavirus cases. France has exceeded 1.5 million cases and at their current rate may take over Russia's #4 spot. In the US, Texas took over the top spot from California a few days ago, depending on who's counting. Florida remains a distant third.

On the animal front, a symptomatic Knoxville, TN tiger tested positive last week, and two other tigers are presumed positive. There are no plans to kill the tigers.

The minks are not so lucky; neovisicide rages on in northern Europe where Denmark now plans to cull their entire mink population over an unspecified mutant SARS-CoV-2 strain that has already infected humans. It may differ enough from the common strains to be an issue.

P.S. Massachusetts cases are up one percent today.

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