Herpes-COVID Monkeys on the Loose After Big Rig Crashes: Report

By Katie Jerkovich

Sometimes you read a headline and you think it can’t be true. But we can confirm that a big rig carrying monkeys who are believed to carry herpes and COVID crashed, and the animals escaped, leading to a massive search underway in Mississippi.

In a post from the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department, it confirmed that on Wednesday, a wreck occurred on 159 near mile marker 117 involving a “truck carrying Rehsus monkeys from Tulane University.”

🚨 BREAKING: Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes & COVID overturns in Mississippi

Sheriff says all but one of the animals have been “destroyed.” pic.twitter.com/L9ss4ylJof

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“The monkeys are approximately 40lbs, they are aggressive to humans, and they require PPE to handle,” the post read. “The monkeys carry hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID. Tulane University has been notified and will send a team to pick up the monkeys tomorrow (the ones that are still caged).”

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