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Did you know that minks' lung physiology make the species particularly high-risk for producing and spreading dangerous variants of respiratory diseases?
Even worse: Because the fur industry crowds minks together in cages, mink fur farms have become ideal breeding grounds for diseases that worsen COVID and may usher in the next pandemic.
When humans catch COVID from minks, those strains don't just stay on the fur farm. Infected people can, and have, spread mink-specific strains of the disease into their communities.
The same goes for minks who catch COVID from humans. Confined minks are notorious escape artists, and COVID-infected minks have escaped and spread the disease to animals in the wild. Minks have also spread avian influenza among their confined populations after contracting the disease from wild birds.
It's a serious hazard. But luckily forward-thinking members of the House of Representatives have introduced a new bill to protect public health and wildlife by phasing out mink farming.
Tell your representative to support the Mink VIRUS Act to end mink farming now.
Learn more about mink farming and viral pandemic risk here.