COPENHAGEN — Denmark this week began digging up millions of culled mink buried six months ago because of concerns that the mass graves could contaminate drinking water and a nearby bathing lake.
The Danish government ordered the country’s entire mink herd – one of the world’s biggest at some 17 million – to be culled in early November after hundreds of mink farms suffered outbreaks of coronavirus and authorities found mutated strains of the virus among people.
Most of the mink were burned in waste incinerators, but limited capacity forced authorities to bury some four million mink, or 13 million tons, at military areas in western Denmark.
Some mink soon resurfaced from the…
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