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Over 40 monkeys escape from research lab and are on the loose in South Carolina (2 Viewers)


"Non-human primates at the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center are provided to other research organizations to advance scientific discovery. The primates in question belong to another entity and are not infectious. We are actively collaborating with local authorities and will send a team of animal care experts to assist as needed," Tulane University said in a statement.
Sheriff Randy Johnson said 21 monkeys were on the truck. Six of them escaped. Fifteen remained caged after the crash. "The monkey that got away actually crossed interstate, went out into a wooded area," Johnson told ABC News. The Jasper County Sheriff's Office originally said the monkeys carried hepatitis C, herpes and COVID. Tulane officials stressed that the animals were not diseased or infectious.
 

Cops are warning residents in rural South Carolina to shut their doors and windows after at least 43 monkeys escaped from a bio-research lab.

The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee — which is just off I-95 in the south of the state — on Wednesday night.

The company provides “primate research and development support to the scientific community,” according to its website.

Cops are warning residents in rural South Carolina to shut their doors and windows after at least 43 monkeys escaped from a bio-research lab.

The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee — which is just off I-95 in the south of the state — on Wednesday night.

The company provides “primate research and development support to the scientific community,” according to its website.

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Huh, thats odd, same thing just happened at a Tulane research facility .
 

"Non-human primates at the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center are provided to other research organizations to advance scientific discovery. The primates in question belong to another entity and are not infectious. We are actively collaborating with local authorities and will send a team of animal care experts to assist as needed," Tulane University said in a statement.
Sheriff Randy Johnson said 21 monkeys were on the truck. Six of them escaped. Fifteen remained caged after the crash. "The monkey that got away actually crossed interstate, went out into a wooded area," Johnson told ABC News. The Jasper County Sheriff's Office originally said the monkeys carried hepatitis C, herpes and COVID. Tulane officials stressed that the animals were not diseased or infectious.
Unfortunately the INFECTED AGGRESSIVE MONKEYS message got out to the public, and the "Sorry, they're not really infected" message didn't.


One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children.

Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 feet away. Bond Ferguson said she and other residents had been warned about diseases that the escaped monkeys carried, so she fired her gun. "I did what any other mother would do to protect her children," Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told The Associated Press. "I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that's when he fell."
 

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