There’s a Monkey With Hepatitis C and Herpes Loose in Mississippi

They say it’s not infectious … but I’m not getting anywhere near it.

By Braden Bjella

Published 30 minutes ago in Wtf

Yesterday, a truck carrying a cartload of diseased rhesus monkeys from a Tulane University-affiliated research center crashed while driving through Mississippi. This resulted in several monkeys — which were riddled with STIs like hepatitis C and herpes, as well as everyone’s favorite world-shutting-down virus — escaping into the wilderness.


Police have since captured most of the monkeys and, appropriately, compromised them to a permanent end. Well, most of them. According to the New York Post, one of these monkeys is still on the loose.


While Tulane University says the monkeys aren’t infectious, officials are saying that, if you see the remaining monkey, you should stay as far away as possible and call 911. Yeah, I’m not getting anywhere near a diseased monkey — you don’t gotta tell me twice!

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