pjmedia.com By David Manney
If the premise behind this article kind of sounds familiar to you, you are not alone, because it feels like the opening scene of a late-’90s thriller.
A transport truck carrying rhesus monkeys overturns on a Mississippi highway, shrouded in fog; cages burst open, and one panicked primate disappears into the local woods.
If this situation occurred in front of a camera, then we’d cue the sirens, flashing lights (but only after we warned people with light sensitivity), and a CDC convoy rolling behind a weary Dustin Hoffman and a frantic Renée Russo.
The only problem? It’s not Hollywood; it’s Jasper County, Mississippi, and one monkey is still missing.
When Fiction Starts Looking Familiar
In the movie Outbreak, a single monkey, infected and smuggled from Zaire, exposes a small California town to a deadly virus.
Back then, producers mixed science fiction with Cold War anxiety. Today, it’s a reality…
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