Spain to Cull 93,000 Mink at a Farm Hit by Coronavirus

Spain to Cull 93,000 Mink at a Farm Hit by Coronavirus
File photo of a mink grown in fur farming, in the box for photography, powdered with snow. Kostantin Sokolov/iStock Photos
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MADRID—Health authorities have ordered the culling of all 93,000 mink at a farm in eastern Spain to prevent human contagion after discovering that most of the animals there had been infected with the coronavirus.

The farm in the village of La Puebla de Valverde in the region of Aragon, 200 km (125 miles) east of Madrid, came to the attention of the authorities after the wife of one of its workers tested positive in May.