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This is being carried by multiple news outlets,

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so I'm just gonna pick one and read it. This

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one is coming to you from The Independent. Oh

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yeah, I forgot to mention, with all the confusion,

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I'm not giving you a choice of category this

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week because I found this far too interesting.

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This article from October 29, 2025. Okay, somewhat

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topical for your fringy minis. Yeah. Pretty recent.

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Coming to us from the independent in this instance,

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it was the first one that I could open up and

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it's titled by Rachel Dobkin and Greg. I've never

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seen Greg spelled this way ever in my life. G

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-R -A -I -G. Kind of like Craig. Yeah. Phonetically,

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there's nothing wrong with it, but I hate it.

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I really do hate it. I didn't even know that

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was something I could hate. Grazziosi. Crews

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continue to hunt for three aggressive research

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monkeys who escaped truck crash on Mississippi

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Highway. there didn't seem to be an update on

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that. At one point I saw one that said one is

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remaining so they probably killed two of them

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unfortunately. But here we are reading this one.

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I didn't see an update that they caught the last

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one. Three aggressive monkeys are still on the

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loose after a truck transporting them overturned

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in Mississippi, officials confirmed. The truck

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was loaded with caged rhesus monkeys when it

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crashed on Interstate 59 North of Heidelberg

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on Tuesday. It is still not clear what caused

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the truck to overturn. Okay, fair enough. Yeah,

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I just remembered three are missing. I assume

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there were three in total. Fair enough for you

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saying that. Maybe there were only three. We

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have no clarification. There's somewhere between

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three and three thousand. We got to assume. Yeah,

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exactly. No less than three. Either three or

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three thousand. That's my guess anyway. Certainly

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not four. That would've been awkward if that

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one didn't want to partake, so it just sat there,

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didn't escape. It was driving the truck. The

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truck was loaded with caged rusa's monkeys when

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it crashed, despite reports initially suggesting

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that the monkeys were carrying infectious disease.

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Oh, I remember this. Including hepatitis C, herpes,

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and COVID -19, Tulane University, where they

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were being housed, denied the case. The primates

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aren't infectious. Actually, it says the primates

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dot dot dot aren't infectious. I wonder what

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those dot dot dots are covering up. We're actively

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collaborating. I bet it's, and don't quote me

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on this. collaborating with local authorities

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and will send a team of animal care experts to

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assist as needed," the university wrote. Tulane

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stressed to The Independent that the monkeys

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have not been exposed to any infectious agent.

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The monkeys, which the Associated Press says

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are among the most medically studied in the world,

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were being transported to a testing facility

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in Florida, Connecticut, WFSB reported. Jasper

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County Sheriff Randy Johnson told local outlet

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WAPT that 21 monkeys were on the truck, six of

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whom initially escaped. We were way off. Oh,

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so they were able to thwart like half of them

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right off the bat. Yeah, unless all of those

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other ones died in the crash and the other ones

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took off. Quote, the monkey that got away actually

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crossed interstate, went out into a wooded area,

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Johnson said. That was broken English. I wonder

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if Johnson is a native English speaker. Initial

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reports suggested. Only one monkey was still

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on the loose, but after Jasper County officials

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were able to reach the wreck safely, they discovered

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two others had also fled from the wreck. The

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driver of the truck told local law enforcement

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that the monkeys were dangerous and posed a threat

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to humans. The department wrote in a Facebook

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post warning the public they were aggressive.

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Tulane previously told The Independent that the

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monkeys left the Tulane National Biomedical Research

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Center in Covington, Louisiana and were traveling

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to a non -Tulane -affiliated location. The primates

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in question belonged to another entity, the university

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said, adding that they were not being trans -

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Transported by a Tulane affiliated service sounds

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like Tulane wants nothing to do with these monkeys

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I just gotta say like we're talking about an

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accident and the name of the research facility

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is Tulane like a road is just weird The monkeys

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that escaped and were recovered have been destroyed,

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according to officials. I hate it when they use

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that word. Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries

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also responded to the scene. Tulane will send

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a team to pick up the monkeys that are still

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caged on Wednesday, according to authorities.

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In the wake of the incident, PETA issued a statement

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calling the incident an example of the risk posed

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by the greedy monkey experimentation industry.

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While it can be hard to manage age What? I think

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I went to a different article. Anyhow, I think

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that's the end of the article. This wasn't exactly

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the article I was hoping for, and I'm left confused

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a little bit as to if they weren't full of herpes

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and COVID. Who would even want a racist monkey

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then? Did the truck driver just make it up? Like,

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where did this come from? Something tells me

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that this truck driver had multiple accidents

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in his past, and they told him like, you gotta

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be really careful. These monkeys, they got herpes.

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And like COVID and I don't know, what are you

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scared of? Yep, they got that. They got a lot

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of that. Just like incentivize them to drive.

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You gotta be careful. Any wrong moves and these

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monkeys will give you herpes. So much herpes.

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Anyhow, that's the article. I was kind of left

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like it was reported publicly by something like

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not just a rumor by like somebody who should

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have known that these things were infected with

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things and like a weird amalgamation of many

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things and i don't know if they were ordering

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like separate infections with monkeys or if they

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all had all of these infections and tulang came

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in rather aggressively with those aren't our

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monkeys and they do not have any infectious diseases

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which I really hope there was a reporter at the

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time that's saying like well how do you know

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they don't have these if they're not your monkeys?

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The Independent did a very poor job at this and

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I'm left wanting more about the herpes maybe

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don't have herpes monkeys and that's how I'm

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left feeling on this Wednesday and with that

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I don't know you guys got 48 hours you look up

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like these are cross species infectious Like

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I'm just what you know, let's not end it there

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I do have a question if these maybe the monkeys

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did have it It just can't like jump the species

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barrier. That was not a question That was just

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a thought out loud. Yeah, that was a anyhow I

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go back you guys think about that too. Goodbye