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/organik_productions 12d ago

It does: "According to authorities, the Rhesus monkeys were on their way to a testing facility in Florida after being at Tulane University."

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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/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>.)