The Franz Weber Foundation publishes this Monday photographs the place the cages of supposedly mink which might be partially open are noticed from the surface, in that very same breeding place within the Galician municipality.
So they warn that “any animal prone to transmitting chook flu or one other virus can come into contact” with mammals and infect them. This is strictly what the investigation concluded, the outcomes of which have been printed within the European Journal on Surveillance, Epidemiology, Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases.
From the FFW they warn that this example supposes “poor biosecurity measures”, one thing that the researchers requested to strengthen to keep away from infections and outbreaks such because the one which occurred in October 2022 in stated city in A Coruña.
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According to the group in a press launch, the recording was made on Friday, January 27. All the specimens that grew to become contaminated, greater than 50,000, have been sacrificed on the time and the case set off alarm bells.
Because the presence of a mutation was discovered that was already current within the 2009 swine flu pandemic. The Foundation has introduced that it’ll ship this graphic doc to the ministries of Ecological Transition, Health and Consumption.
“Obvious well being threat”
They are in search of the closure of American mink farms to be decreed on this approach. All due to its “apparent threat to environmental well being, that is for biodiversity, ecosystems and folks.”
The reality is that already in November 2022, FFW warned in one other press launch that the measures imposed by the Ministry of Rural Affairs have been “inadequate” in this kind of farm. He added that they have been “inconceivable to satisfy” even.
As he defined, the naturalists themselves had documented “how seagulls and different birds settled peacefully on the ships the place hundreds of mustelids have been born” on the Carral services.
“The concern can also be extensible to the tens of hundreds of people that reside within the municipalities which might be house to fur farms, with greater than 80% of the sector situated in Galicia,” the assertion concluded, specifying that there have been “no less than 25” of them “lively”.