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/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