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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: crrash; monkeys; paping; woman
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1 posted on 01/25/2022 8:43:58 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Monkey fever?


2 posted on 01/25/2022 8:44:40 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t this how nearly horror movie of the 90s got started?


3 posted on 01/25/2022 8:45:17 AM PST by shadowlands1960 ("...some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again... " CSL)
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To: null and void
"Ping-A-Gram for Mr. Null and Void"


4 posted on 01/25/2022 8:45:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Make note to self. Leave the monkeys be.


5 posted on 01/25/2022 8:45:33 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: LucyT

ping


6 posted on 01/25/2022 8:45:51 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: BenLurkin

Many horror movies have started with a similar scenario.


7 posted on 01/25/2022 8:46:38 AM PST by rbg81
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To: rktman

Well, here is a reason for national lockdown, mandatory masking, and vaccinate against everything known to man.

There is a monkey on the loose. All caps for those who are not in fear .. M.O.N.K.E.Y!

Hide under your beds.


8 posted on 01/25/2022 8:47:14 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: BenLurkin

They also gave her Valtrex. Interesting.


9 posted on 01/25/2022 8:47:19 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: BenLurkin

Fauci and his minions must be utterly destroyed. They will eventually loose a virus that will kill us all.


10 posted on 01/25/2022 8:47:25 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t this straight from the movie “OUTBREAK?”


11 posted on 01/25/2022 8:48:28 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: BenLurkin; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; ...
BenLurkin :" 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."

12 posted on 01/25/2022 8:50:02 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: BenLurkin

She needs to sue NOW to learn what she was exposed to.


13 posted on 01/25/2022 8:51:48 AM PST by G Larry (The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
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To: dforest

Isnt Valtrex for genital herpes? Maybe it helps with Monkey herpes


14 posted on 01/25/2022 8:53:14 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: dforest

“They also gave her Valtrex.”

But I’ll bet they’re not going to offer Ivermectin — the eee-vil concoction.


15 posted on 01/25/2022 8:55:07 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: G Larry

So if anyone posts her illness was caused by a leak from a lab will work hey be banned from social media.


16 posted on 01/25/2022 8:56:05 AM PST by midwest_hiker
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

What are these monster scientists doing transporting infected monkeys across the country?


17 posted on 01/25/2022 8:58:22 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 33:12))
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To: rbg81
Many horror movies have started with a similar scenario.

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Outbreak.
1995


18 posted on 01/25/2022 8:58:24 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: rbg81

Hopefully not future documentaries...


19 posted on 01/25/2022 8:59:07 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: RummyChick

Monkey Pox? I don’t know but the Valtrex isn’t too safe either from what I read.
Those lying liars at CDC know exactly what this is.


20 posted on 01/25/2022 8:59:12 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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