Denmark Orders Reburials For “Zombie Mink” [VIDEO]

November 27, 2020 Coronavirus, Government

Denmark’s government said on Friday it wants to dig up mink that were culled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after some resurfaced from mass graves. Denmark ordered all farmed mink to be culled early this month after finding that 12 people had been infected by a mutated strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, which passed from humans to mink and back to humans.

The decision led to 17 million animals being destroyed and to the resignation last week of the agriculture minister after it was determined that the order was illegal. Dead mink were tipped into trenches at a military area and covered with two metres of soil. But hundreds have begun resurfacing, pushed out of the ground by what authorities say is gas from their decomposition. Newspapers have referred to them as the “zombie mink”.

Dead mink resurface from mass grave in Denmark https://t.co/6pMW6X6jBs pic.twitter.com/Eis9p6aemU

— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) November 27, 2020

“Dead mink are rising from their graves in Denmark after a rushed cull over fears of a coronavirus mutation led to thousands being slaughtered and buried in shallow pits – from which some are now emerging.”https://t.co/fpk5jWWzCY

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) November 25, 2020

I’m no virologist but this seems bad, also why are dead minks rising from mass graves? https://t.co/AEHFn8Q2ly

— Molly Jong-Fast? (@MollyJongFast) November 26, 2020