JESSICA SCOTT-REIDSPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAILPUBLISHED 1 DAY AGOUPDATED NOVEMBER 15, 2020

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Jessica Scott-Reid is a freelance writer, animal advocate and co-host of Canadian animal law podcastPaw and Order.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, all eyes were on China, where the country’s wet markets – which in some cases sold live animals in cramped cages and unhygienic conditions that served as potential breeding grounds for zoonotic diseases – were linked to the early transmission of the novel coronavirus.

Now the world’s gaze has turned to Denmark, where at least 12 people have contracted a particularly worrying mutated version of COVID-19 from mink, prompting the region to lock down and begin the cull of tens of millions of farmed mink and causing the U.K. to ban travel to and from the Scandinavian country. Mink are the only known animals capable of catching the virus from…