Reporting Highlights
- Deadly Outbreak: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic.
- Government Failures: State officials didn’t order the mink to be killed, which other countries with outbreaks have done. They are prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.
- Silent Risks: Despite CDC guidance urging officials to monitor workers, they actively chose not to and declined to test workers — including one with a symptom experts said would warrant testing.
China buys all the mink fur in the world for clothes production. I’m not sure where the end consumers of the products are.
It’s the secret ingredient in Temu fabric. One mink can make a thousand shitty T-shirts.