Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi

https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/36124854

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hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 307d (6 replies)

Who had *checks notes* 28 Days Later on their bingo card?

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 307d (5 replies)

I think Americans are just reviewing 90s and 2000s disaster movies and using them as a guide.

Cascio@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 307d (2 replies)

hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 307d (1 reply)

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 307d

Oh yeah, its all coming together

bajabound@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 307d (1 reply)

I seem to recall a documentary where Cuba gooding Jr saved a small town from a monkey.

moondoggie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 307d

Yeah, yeah, we’ve all seen Jerry Maguire

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 307d (1 reply)

The upside? There's been measurable increase in Mississippi's IQ.

Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 307d

I knew Norm McDonald was still alive!

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 307d (2 replies)

Here's a thought, let's not infect monkeys with COVID and herpes, eh?

fonix232@fedia.io · 9 pts · 307d

Or if we must... don't transport them en masse? or at all?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 307d

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.

VocationConfining@piefed.social · 11 pts · 307d (1 reply)

Am I mlissing something? I don't see a mention of herpes, COVID, or aggressive.

molten@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 307d

Yeah... same here.

MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al · 9 pts · 307d (3 replies)

Jesus what kind of depraved shit were these monkeys into?!

Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 307d

D&D

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 307d (1 reply)

monkey business.

foggy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 307d

Not even gonna ask...

BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 307d

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.

notsure@fedia.io · 5 pts · 307d

....and only in Mississippi news...

bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 307d

Awwshit, here we go again...