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Driver who stopped to help when truck carrying 100 lab monkeys crashed in Pennsylvania and put her hand in one of the cages says she now has a cough and pink eye: CDC urges anyone in contact with the macaques to seek medical attention
Daily Mail ^ | 1/25/22

Posted on 01/25/2022 4:47:19 AM PST by BusterDog

A truck carrying around 100 monkeys that crashed in Pennsylvania is now sparking fears of infection after a woman who came into contact with the primates began to feel unwell.

Michelle Fallon, from Danville near Scranton, was driving directly behind the vehicle when it crashed, throwing animal crates all over the highway and smashing some to pieces.

Four of the 100 animals escaped and were seen sitting among the wreckage before they fled.

Police say they have now all been accounted for, with three known to have been euthanised.

Fallon said she got out to help both the driver and the animals in their cages, initially believing them to be cats. When she approached and put her hand on the cage, she says the monkey hissed at her.

The day following the accident, Fallon suddenly developed a cough and pink-eye, which became so bad that she had to visit the emergency room at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.

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


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To: rdcbn1

The 28 days reference was funny right up until pink eye.


81 posted on 01/25/2022 7:01:03 AM PST by enduserindy (Brian Schnepf)
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To: BusterDog

Rhesus Heist!


82 posted on 01/25/2022 7:05:25 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: bankwalker

There was never a rink at that location.


83 posted on 01/25/2022 7:12:34 AM PST by brianl703
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To: T.B. Yoits

Exactly right.

If you have high dollar freight, you don’t want to do it that way but sometimes you have no choice


84 posted on 01/25/2022 7:17:57 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Magnatron
If only the monkeys wore masks…

Yes. Good one.

85 posted on 01/25/2022 7:20:34 AM PST by Faith
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To: BusterDog

Alternative headline:

Bio-Weapon RELEASED! (made to look like a truck “accident”).


86 posted on 01/25/2022 7:50:16 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: BusterDog

Do monkeys have pink eyes?


87 posted on 01/25/2022 7:50:50 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: cgbg

Ever hear of Plum Island?


88 posted on 01/25/2022 8:04:26 AM PST by MissEdie (Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
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To: BusterDog

Unless they have an engineered disease, it’s likely typhoid.


89 posted on 01/25/2022 8:07:54 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: T.B. Yoits

I’m beginning to wonder why Steve Bannon even has guests, since he hardly ever brings them into the discussion.


90 posted on 01/25/2022 8:16:59 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: 21twelve

Inflation, it now takes 100, not just 12.


91 posted on 01/25/2022 8:21:09 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: brianl703

I stand corrected ... the rink I had in mind is at 1800 Michael Faraday Ct ... I was there about 20 years ago and for some reason thought the monkey house was at the other end of the parking lot ...


92 posted on 01/25/2022 8:23:35 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Regardless of the animal in the cages, it is unwise to engage them directly after something as traumatic as an accident. Employing compassion over critical thinking is a qualifier for a Darwin Award.


93 posted on 01/25/2022 9:02:39 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Travis McGee

The Hot Zone was one scary book!


94 posted on 01/25/2022 9:11:20 AM PST by nclaurel (Twice denied my “basic human rights” by being Double Banned by Twitter Communists)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

95 posted on 01/25/2022 9:20:27 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Not_Who_U_Think

I just heard a radio report that the truck driver either lied about what he was carrying or was told otherwise (he told a witness that he was hauling felines, aka “cats”).

Unconfirmed, but “Hmmmmmm…”


96 posted on 01/25/2022 9:47:23 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: BusterDog

People frequently use no common sense at all when it comes to
how they interact with animals.

The real world is not as idyllic as short clips with animals
that have been tamed.

Those monkeys were frightened and suspected anything that
moved of being a threat.

This woman should have waited for trained people to show up
with the proper equipment to handle the situation.

I don’t want to see animals harmed or die, but if it comes
to a human be harmed or dying, I’ll chose the human to live.


97 posted on 01/25/2022 11:24:22 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegience to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: BusterDog
There is only one way to stop a pandemic before it starts.


98 posted on 01/25/2022 11:31:20 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: BusterDog

Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.


99 posted on 01/25/2022 2:47:26 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: 21twelve

And only four of them escaped.🙄


100 posted on 01/25/2022 4:31:47 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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