‘Watch them die’: Bird flu is ravaging a Utah mink farm, killing 80% of the herd. State agriculture officials have no clear plan.

It’s the first documented outbreak of bird flu in captive mink in the U.S., and an advocacy group is raising concerns about Utah’s response.

(Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) Mink look out from a pen on a farm near Naestved, Denmark, on Nov. 6, 2020. Denmark ordered the culling of all farmed mink in the country during the coronavirus pandemic.