Virukset | Lintuinfluenssa levisi turkistarhoihin ensimmäistä kertaa Suomessa – ”Erittäin huono uutinen”, sanoo professori (High pathogenic H5N1 avian flu strain infected fur farms for the first time)

It should be pretty clear, especially after COVID, that fur farming should be ended for good. It serves as an incubator for future epidemics and pandemics. For reference, the last common ancestor of birds and mammals existed ~320 million years ago. The last common ancestor of humans and foxes existed around 60 million years ago. The probability of mutating into a virus that can spread between humans is much higher in an infected fur farm than in the bird population.

by spurdospede