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Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi
(www.actionnews5.com)
Who had *checks notes* 28 Days Later on their bingo card?
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
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I think Americans are just reviewing 90s and 2000s disaster movies and using them as a guide.
I seem to recall a documentary where Cuba gooding Jr saved a small town from a monkey.
Yeah, yeah, we’ve all seen Jerry Maguire
The upside? There's been measurable increase in Mississippi's IQ.
I knew Norm McDonald was still alive!
Here's a thought, let's not infect monkeys with COVID and herpes, eh?
Or if we must... don't transport them en masse? or at all?
a fun fact to know, that monkeys carry a type of herpes, called herpes B virus, which is related to HSV1&2, while herpes is usually a benign infection in the monkeys, the HERPES B virus is quite deadly to humans if they infected by it, because its a zoonotic virus, and humans dont have similar virus to it, much like with avian flu virus.
Jesus what kind of depraved shit were these monkeys into?!
D&D
Am I mlissing something? I don't see a mention of herpes, COVID, or aggressive.
Yeah... same here.
Not even gonna ask...
The article doesn't say whether these are two separate groups of monkeys, some infected with COVID and some infected with Herpes, or a cohesive set of monkeys simultaneously infected with COVID and Herpes.
....and only in Mississippi news...
Awwshit, here we go again...