More than 15,000 people in the United States have died from the new coronavirus
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Last Update: 2020-12-16
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, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- More than 15,000 ferrets have died from the new coronavirus in farms in several U.S. states since August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture told the media. The authorities are monitoring the farms and isolating them.
Utah was the first state to confirm the new coronavirus in August, with about 10,700 ferns dying in nine farms. Initial investigations revealed that the outbreaks in nine farms were transmitted from person to person, and that some of them were asymptomatic infections or mild symptoms as in humans. About 5,000 slugs also died at two farms in Wisconsin. Authorities in Michigan have not disclosed how many of the animals died.
U.S. Department of Agriculture says sick people in Wisconsin and Utah have come into contact with new coronavirus patients, but it's not known whether Michigan's slugs were also infected with the new coronavirus by humans.
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is supporting state investigations into the disease that will help shed more aware of the spread of the virus among ferns and other animals and humans around farms. Authorities are urging farmers to wear protective equipment such as masks and gloves when breeding slugs to avoid infection.
, denmark, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden have reported new coronavirus in their farms, the World Health Organization said Saturday. WHO says the new coronavirus is transmitted from humans to ferrets, then to each other and is at risk of re-transmission to humans. Denmark has found a number of cases in which a mutated new coronavirus has been transmitted to humans.
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