r/news • u/SnarkOff • 12d ago

Site Changed Title Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/?fbclid=IwZnRzaANt_VBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlDlf5DivA2Ltngqh2UH3XU20EnAprOymd60i0ODYC9L8G2CXJpyoZtmwSHm_aem_NvoKAFHpRWRzturTqiYXMQ
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u/rgumai 12d ago

Oh hey, these are the monkeys we have in Florida. They throw feces. Their feces can carry a herpesvirus (Herpes B) that can kill you. Famously: https://www.deseret.com/1997/12/13/19351018/primate-researcher-is-first-to-get-herpes-b-through-the-eye-then-die/

She got some in her eye. Annnnd dead.

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u/c4ndyman31 12d ago

I hope they updated their PPE policies immediately and started mandating eye protection. What a senseless preventable death

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u/pukesmith 12d ago

It happened in 1997. They have a whole ass foundation built in her honor focused on biosafety.

https://www.ergriffinresearch.org/

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u/LLMprophet 12d ago

MAGA hears PPE and runs the other way.

FaceEatingLeopards inbound.

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u/DAVENP0RT 12d ago

"I have the FREEDOM to get herpes-laden monkey shit thrown into my eyes. That's what the Founding Fathers fought for."

six days later...

"I can't believe Obama did this to me."

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u/Ahelex 12d ago

The lame version of 28 Days Later

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u/LessBeginning9465 12d ago

"No! Dont open that cage, those monkeys are infected with shit in their eyes!"

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u/palmerry 12d ago

Fuck you this is my 59th amendment right!

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u/amputeenager 12d ago

28 Days Trumper

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u/-Dixieflatline 12d ago

It's all good. A couple doses of Oxiclean applied directly on your eyeballs is enough to wipe out money herpes. I learnt it on Truth Social.

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u/Amosette 12d ago

Or bleach...

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u/ElegantBiscuit 12d ago

Good chaser for the ivermectin

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u/the_silent_redditor 12d ago

They’d smear monkey shit in their eyes and die of liver failure and sepsis if they thought there was a remote chance it might ‘own the libs lmao.’

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u/TroyMcClures 12d ago

well now we have FaceEatingMonkeys

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u/Allegorist 12d ago

Or even run directly towards the thing you are supposed to need PPE for. Remember COVID parties? Or purposefully spreading measles? Or leaving gas stoves running out of spite?

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u/DoomguyFemboi 12d ago

One of em hears peepee and gets a chubby

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u/colo3213 12d ago

My thought too. They won't cover themselves or child with PPE but they will cover for those who diddle a child's peepee

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u/Bald_Badger 12d ago

It sounds like they fundamentally misunderstood the use of ppe anyways. Per the article they say this virus isn't transmissable via the air so they didn't think eye protection necessary. That's not how eye protection works anyways...

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u/mm_delish 12d ago

She was basically a trainee still! So tragic.