A truck carrying rhesus monkeys crashed in Jasper County, Mississippi, leaving three missing. Initial reports from the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department suggested the monkeys carried infectious diseases but later clarified that the animals were not infected.
In a Facebook post, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department previously said the rhesus monkeys carried Hepatitis C, herpes and COVID and were deemed to be “aggressive to humans,” requiring personal protective equipment to handle them.
The sheriff’s officer later clarified the comments with a statement from Tulane University that the monkeys were not infected.
Tulane University has been notified and will send a team tomorrow to collect the remaining monkeys that are still in cages.
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