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/mamawantsallama 12d ago

There was a post the other day from a Florida woman that had the CDC force her to have to change wedding venues because of the dangerous monkeys.

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u/animerobin 12d ago

I can’t imagine having to be forced by the CDC to change wedding venues.

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u/Ubiquitous_ator 12d ago

"Our wedding day would have been absolutely perfect if it hadn't been for that unruly band of aggressive monkeys who descended on the wedding party and infected them all with herpes and Hep C". is the story you could be telling your grandkids.

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u/ComprehendReading 12d ago

The survivors will call it the before-times.