China News Service, December 15th. According to the "Central News Agency" report, on the 14th local time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture stated that they had discovered the first case of a wild animal infected with the new crown virus in the United States.
Since August, the new crown virus has claimed the lives of more than 15,000 farmed minks in the United States, and Utah is the hardest hit area.
The emergence of this wild mink case has made people more and more worried that the epidemic may break out among the mink.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture stated in a notice that they discovered this “non-farmed, wild mink” case in Utah while monitoring wild animals near the farm with the epidemic.
The USDA added that some wild animals of different species were also sampled for testing, but the test results were negative.
The USDA mentioned that they have reported this case to the World Organization for Animal Health.
But at the same time, he said that there is no evidence that the virus has spread to wild animals on a large scale near the mink breeding grounds where the epidemic has spread.
Previously, Denmark, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries have reported the discovery of the new crown virus in mink farms.
The WHO said that the new crown virus is transmitted from humans to minks, and then spreads between minks, and there is a risk of transmission to humans again.
In addition, the United States has found new coronaviruses in tigers in zoos, cats and dogs at home.