{"id":154409,"date":"2025-10-31T01:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154409\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T01:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:38:14","slug":"bangkok-post-three-escaped-research-monkeys-at-large-after-us-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154409\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Post &#8211; Three escaped research monkeys at large after US crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five animals put down after driver mistakenly tells officers they were infected<\/p>\n<p>PUBLISHED : 30 Oct 2025 at 11:34<\/p>\n<p>                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.bangkokpost.com\/v3\/assets\/images\/icon\/icon-text_size.svg\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<ul class=\"boxtextsize\">\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.bangkokpost.com\/v3\/assets\/images\/icon\/icon-text_size.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> \u00a0 Small<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.bangkokpost.com\/v3\/assets\/images\/icon\/icon-text_size.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> \u00a0 Medium<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.bangkokpost.com\/v3\/assets\/images\/icon\/icon-text_size.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> \u00a0 Large<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c1_3128728_800.jpg\"   alt=\"A rhesus monkey stands on a crate next to a truck that overturned on Interstate 59 in Jasper County, 120km southeast of Jackson, Mississippi. (Photo: Jasper County Sheriff\u2019s Department)\" class=\"img-fluid\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                          A rhesus monkey stands on a crate next to a truck that overturned on Interstate 59 in Jasper County, 120km southeast of Jackson, Mississippi. (Photo: Jasper County Sheriff\u2019s Department)                        <\/p>\n<p>JASPER COUNTY, Mississippi \u2014 Several rhesus monkeys escaped after a truck transporting them overturned on a highway in this southern US state, with three still reported to be at large as of Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident on Tuesday prompted a containment and recovery operation in which sheriff\u2019s deputies euthanised five monkeys after the driver mistakenly told them they were infected with Covid-19, hepatitis C and herpes, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/29\/us\/monkeys-euthanized-mistake-tulane-mississippi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1270470015121992&amp;set=a.344808304354839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jasper County Sheriff\u2019s Department<\/a> said the vehicle overturned on Interstate 59 near Heidelberg, about 120 kilometres southeast of the state capital Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one rhesus monkeys were aboard the truck at the time, according to Sheriff Randy Johnson, who said the driver had fallen asleep.<\/p>\n<p>The driver reportedly told deputies the animals were aggressive, potentially dangerous to humans and required protective gear to handle. Acting on that information, authorities warned the public to stay clear of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were initially told that the monkeys were linked to the National Biomedical Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans. However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1270543638447963&amp;set=a.344808304354839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">university later clarified<\/a> that the primates did not belong to the institution and were not infectious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primates in question belong to another entity and have not been exposed to any infectious agent,\u201d the university said, adding that a team of animal care experts had been dispatched to assist local officials.<\/p>\n<p>It declined to name the other entity or say where the monkeys were being taken at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s department subsequently said that three monkeys remained unaccounted for after Tulane staff were able to conduct a full count. An animal disposal firm and officers from Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries also assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five animals put down after driver mistakenly tells officers they were infected PUBLISHED : 30 Oct 2025 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[3851,18,90272,19,17,38334,48989,172,133,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-154409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-crash","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-escape","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-lab","14":"tag-monkey","15":"tag-research","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115466227322709850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}