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INFECTION FEARS Woman who stopped to help after lab monkeys escaped from truck crash FALLS ILL sparking outbreak fears
The Sun UK ^

Posted on 01/25/2022 8:43:58 AM PST by BenLurkin

AN escape of lab monkeys on a Pennsylvania highway has sparked fears of a virus outbreak after a woman who came into contact with them later fell ill.

Michelle Fallon stopped to help after a truck carrying 100 cynomolgus macaques crashed on Interstate 80, spilling animal crates across the tarmac.

State troopers said four of the primates were on the loose and warned the public not to try to catch them on Friday evening.

They have all since been accounted for.

Now it has emerged a passerby who was at the scene is being treated for symptoms of an unknown illness.

Michelle, of nearby Danville, was driving behind the truck when it crashed on the way to a research facility.

She got out to help the driver with the smashed crates, initially believing they were transporting cats.

When she put her hand on a cage, one of the three monkeys inside hissed at her but she was not bitten or scratched.

She said she also stepped in animal feces amid the chaos as four monkeys ran away into woodland.

The next day she developed Covid-like symptoms including a cough and pink eye.

Doctors gave her the first of four rabies injections together with an anti-viral drug.

She said on Facebook she was contacted by the CDC and is being monitored for symptoms of rabies and monkey herpes virus B.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: crrash; monkeys; paping; woman
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To: crusty old prospector

Real life story in the Chronicle of Higher Education once—some grad students had to do various tasks in a research lab for the university’s grant project. As a couple of students on different work shifts went past the monkey cages the monkeys strained and reached out, slashing their upper arms.

The students came down with high fevers and weird symptoms and were in the hospital for a long time with organ damage. Grad students tried to form a union to get better safety guidelines enforced but it didn’t work out.

Not a good job to take.


21 posted on 01/25/2022 8:59:27 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: hillarys cankles

22 posted on 01/25/2022 8:59:44 AM PST by BipolarBob (BipolarBob's your uncle.)
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To: BenLurkin

There are some serious illnesses associated with monkeys, some fatal. I’d be worried the ‘pink eye’ is herpes related, something common in some types of monkeys.

The CDC was very quick to start issuing warnings and trying to contact people who might have come in contact with them, without proving much detail about health concerns. Wouldn’t be surprised if the monkeys were infected with some serious pathogens that the CDC will try to cover up.


23 posted on 01/25/2022 8:59:47 AM PST by Roadrunner383 (;)
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To: rbg81

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24 posted on 01/25/2022 9:00:10 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (Merry Christmas Illhan!)
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To: rbg81

25 posted on 01/25/2022 9:02:12 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: crusty old prospector
Leave the monkeys be.

Actual good advice. During a business trip in India got taken to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, the grounds of which are peopled by thousands of monkeys. We were told not to even look them in the eye as they would respond aggressively. One could run up and bite chunks off your face before you'd know what was happening. Nasty little buggers. They are only limited to throwing feces at visitors in the zoo because of the cage.

26 posted on 01/25/2022 9:02:17 AM PST by katana
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To: BenLurkin

Monkey Express: When it absolutely, positively has to infect you overnight.


27 posted on 01/25/2022 9:03:58 AM PST by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: bk1000
Fauci and his minions must be utterly destroyed. They will eventually loose a virus that will kill us all.

This is what I have been screaming for awhile. Worth reposting! TY.
28 posted on 01/25/2022 9:04:16 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: BenLurkin

Who is trying to develop a new covid using monkeys? And who didn’t take extraordinary precautions so the monkeys wouldn’t escape?


29 posted on 01/25/2022 9:04:19 AM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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To: BenLurkin

28 days later...


30 posted on 01/25/2022 9:06:01 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

ALL SHE DID WAS STICK HER FINGER IN THE CAGE AND NOW SHE HAS SYMPTOMS AND IS BEING MONITORED BY THE CDC ??????!!!!!

THEY NEED TO FESS UP ABOUT WHAT THOSE MONKEYS WERE INFECTED WITH.


31 posted on 01/25/2022 9:06:51 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; null and void; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ...
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INFECTION FEARS Woman who stopped to help after lab monkeys escaped from truck crash FALLS ILL sparking outbreak fears

"Doctors gave her the first of four rabies injections together with an anti-viral drug. She said on Facebook she was contacted by the CDC and is being monitored for symptoms of rabies and monkey herpes virus B."

32 posted on 01/25/2022 9:07:00 AM PST by LucyT
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To: dforest

i think monkey pox is different than monkey herpes B but dont really know


33 posted on 01/25/2022 9:07:59 AM PST by RummyChick
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34 posted on 01/25/2022 9:11:19 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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35 posted on 01/25/2022 9:12:36 AM PST by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: RummyChick

What is Valtrex? Valtrex (valacyclovir) is an antiviral drug. It slows the growth and spread of the herpes virus to help the body fight the infection. Valtrex is used to treat infections caused by herpes viruses, including genital herpes, cold sores, and shingles (herpes zoster) in adults.


36 posted on 01/25/2022 9:13:56 AM PST by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: BenLurkin

AMERICANS MASK

virus B can be fatal to humans,
so was this a planned crash and FF release,
or an accident showing more abuse by FauXi and his beard?


37 posted on 01/25/2022 9:14:08 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: BenLurkin

“being monitored for symptoms of rabies and monkey herpes virus B”

It’s not monkey herpes, it’s just a cold sore!!!


38 posted on 01/25/2022 9:14:43 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin

Oh that suit will never protect him. He’s not wearing a cloth mask!!!

/sarc


39 posted on 01/25/2022 9:15:27 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin

Hundreds of years of normalcy, then suddenly an unending series of pandemic scares. Cmon folks.


40 posted on 01/25/2022 9:17:03 AM PST by skeeter
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