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SARS-CoV-2 Study Shows Evidence of Animal-to-Human Viral Transmission on Mink Farms

Nov 10, 2020
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NEW YORK – Researchers in the Netherlands investigating outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 in humans living or working on 16 mink farms have found that these people were infected with strains of the virus with an animal sequence signature, suggestive of an animal-to-human transmission.

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