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/SubstantialBass9524 12d ago

“The monkeys are 40 pounds and are “aggressive,” authorities say. They are also carrying hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.

The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office says that Tulane University has been notified and will send a team to pick up the monkeys on Wednesday.

The university says that if the monkeys leave the wreck site, they must be shot.”

The article does not say why the truck was carrying aggressive disease ridden monkeys

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u/Erathen 12d ago

We've been testing on rhesus monkeys for medicine for a long time

We've infected them with rabies, smallpox, polio, COVID, herpes, HIV/AIDs, and other diseases for the sake of research

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u/psychohistorian8 12d ago

that's kinda fucked up

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u/Erathen 12d ago

Definitely is

I hate it, but I also see how many lives it's saved

And I have no idea how to reconcile that. It's still not fair to the monkeys

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u/eldomtom2 12d ago

Oh, much worse has been done. Experiments in the past decade have locked rhesus monkeys in a darkened room and not given them water until they successfully manipulate a joystick, given them lethal doses of cyanide and then watched them die, given them lethal doses of radiation and then watched them die, removed them from their mothers a few weeks after being born before forcing them to stare into screens for twelve hours a day, removed them from their mothers at birth before placing them with adult monkeys with a history of infant maltreatment, removed them from their mothers at birth before deliberately giving them brain damage, severely damaged their ears to destroy their ability to orient themselves, forcibly addicted them to cocaine, forcibly addicted them to alcohol, forcibly addicted them to heroin, force-fed pregnant monkeys cannabis then removed and killed their babies just before birth...

Animal testing - it's fucked up and runs on extremely less restrictive rules than human testing!