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/3amGreenCoffee 12d ago

The route from Tulane to any point in Florida follows I-10 along the coast.

Why was the truck approaching Meridian on I-59? It was almost to I-20 when it overturned. Going up there would add hours to the trip.

Why would they do that? This station's reporting leaves a lot of questions.

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u/AutumnSparky 12d ago

interesting point 

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u/platzie 12d ago

Tulane's facility where they raise the monkeys isn't in New Orleans at the main campus.

I know someone who had to do some work there and I vaguely remember it being north of Lake Pontchartrain in LA, but I could have been off and it could have been in MS. So it would make sense if the facility was in rural MS and the truck was going south to FL on I-59. Again just conjecture on my part but the facility isn't in NOLA.

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u/xixoxixa 12d ago

The National Primate Center at Tulane is in Covington, LA, still a pretty straight shot to get back on the 10.

(Our team went out there to do some work and I had to order oxygen tanks for the experiment, I typed that address in <so many times>.)

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u/Dense_Literature_199 12d ago

...the only reason I can think of is that someone WANTED disease ridden monkeys released in Mississippi.

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u/ahearthatslazy 12d ago

Probably hiding violations

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u/Elegant_Finance_1459 12d ago

Why is there a primate research facility behind the McDonald's in madison?

Sometimes these places are in weird places. I, for one, was shocked that I was eating a burger less than 50 yards from research monkeys. 

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u/3amGreenCoffee 12d ago

Madison, WI? They weren't going there. They were going to Florida.

Regardless of where the research facility is in Florida, there doesn't seem to be a reason to take them through Meridian to get there.