Human illness on the farms preceded or coincided with the mink outbreak: NB2 worker hospitalised 31 March; “Four persons on farm NB1 have had respiratory disease symptoms compatible with Covid-19 since beginning of April”; one NB1 person “showed mild respiratory disease and was diagnosed with SARS-CoV by 28 April”. These are the temporal facts; the direction of transmission for the 28-April case is an inference (see hypotheses).