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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Anybody know what they gave her?
and 28 Days Later...
At least it was 4 and not 12.
Love, Cole
There’s a lot we need to know about this story.
1) Danville PA is 185 miles from Fort Detrick, a straight shot on PA/MD 15. The monkeys were “on their way to a research facility”. Was it USAMRIID? Or did the moneys ORIGINATE at USAMRIID, and were they going somewhere else? If so, where?
2) What medication was given to the woman?
3) What program or grant had the license for these monkeys?
It is time to start handing out the death penalty for scientists who engage in that lethal type research. And then put it out on the road. One hundred monkeys in a truck? What on earth could possibly go wrong?
Those monkeys were probably carrying the next generation of bio warfare.
Right. And last I read, over 3.7 BILLION doses of Ivermectin have been successfully given to humans — IIRC, since the ‘90s. As of this date, probably closer to 4 billion.
Truly, called Monkey B virus. Fatal to human primates.
At least you didn't lose hearing because you were an idiot. That was my angle.
I was think more of “28 Days Later”.
“ But I am just a monkey man
I’m glad you are a monkey woman too”
It’s really one of the best. Still have on vinyl
I’m an apeman, I’m an ape, apeman, oh I’m an apeman
I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voodoo man, oh I’m an apeman
I’ll be your Tarzan, you’ll be my Jane
I’ll keep you warm and you’ll keep me sane
We’ll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day, just like an apeman
-The Kinks
That one not so much.
Lets hope she does not turn into one of their lab mpnkeys. Hell of a way to earn a living as a subject in an e-bola gain of function research program.
She should have observed the dictum, “Not my circus, not my monkeys” and moved along.
Yep. So what did that monkey do to her?
###Can you shock the monkeys?####
No-—but you can “slap” it!
You're no fun.
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