‘Aggressive’ Lab Monkeys Break Free after Truck Crash in Mississippi
“The monkeys are approximately 40lbs, they are aggressive to humans, and they require PPE [personal protective equipment] to handle.”
2025’s news cycle continues to be…interesting.
A truck hauling rhesus monkeys, described as “aggressive” and initially reported to be infected with various pathogens (e.g., hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID), overturned on Interstate 59 in Mississippi.
A truck hauling monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans flipped on a Mississippi highway, freeing several large, “aggressive” monkeys.
After the wreck, which happened north of Heidelberg, multiple rhesus monkeys escaped into the community, according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office.
“The monkeys are approximately 40lbs, they are aggressive to humans, and they require PPE [personal protective equipment] to handle,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Facebook post.
The animals carry hepatitis C, herpes and COVID, deputies said.
🚨 BREAKING: Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes & COVID overturns in Mississippi
Sheriff says all but one of the animals have been “destroyed.” pic.twitter.com/L9ss4ylJof
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 28, 2025
Reports indicate all the animals have been accounted for and euthanized, except one.
Officials from Tulane assert the animals were not infectious. Local law enforcement is currently pursuing the last escapee.
“We have been in contact with an animal disposal company to help handle the situation. Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries is also on site with our local law enforcement. We are continuing to look for the one monkey that is still on the loose,” the post said.
…The sheriff’s office said Tulane University has been notified and will send a team to pick up the remaining caged monkeys on Wednesday, Oct. 29.
“Non-human primates at the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center are provided to other research organizations to advance scientific discovery,” Tulane University said in a statement. “The primates in question belong to another entity and are not infectious. We are actively collaborating with local authorities and will send a team of animal care experts to assist as needed.”
People were warned not to approach the loose monkey and to call 911 if they see it.
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I was involved with animal research for 20 years. I don’t think truck fits a safe protocol for transport of bsl 3 animals (2nd highest class of biosafety level).
It might have got through some lousy plan at a school that doesn’t know what they are doing but this seems like grounds for lawsuits and potential sanctions.
That’s because Tulane clarified the monkees were not infectious and didn’t carry any disease corrected earlier accounts.
Well, Peter Tork had cancer, which was indeed not contagious.
Yeah good point. I commented write after the story went up on here and then saw that. Biocontainment protocols would still suggest that a simple crash shouldn’t allow the animals to break out free and get into the wild where they can cause other harms even if not infectious.
It would be nice to get an honest count of labs doing what risk level of research, involving what pathogens, at which locations and plain English annual reports of the safety/hazard compliance review by a reputable outside investigation. Start making failure to comply with necessary protocols far too painful both in financial penalties and criminal penalties for those responsible for the actions, those charged monitoring and the management who failed their own oversight duties. No more shrugging off these events with a perfunctory apology followed by slap on the wrist.
C’mon! Like you’ve never been involved in a vehicular accident while transporting biohazard materials! Biohazard materials that can move on their own, and are “aggressive”….
Hey, only a couple times, when I was really, really drunk!
They are not biohazards. See my above post
And you seriously believe that garbage? C’mon man…
It’s out there but it is buried intentionally for animal research because of groups like PETA and that other animals group that tried to sue that animals are persons. See previous recent entry on this blog.
Reports indicate all the animals have been accounted for and euthanized, except one.
I see Eric Swalwell is on the loose still. Chinese fathers need to lock their daughters up until he’s caught and euthanized.
“We are continuing to look for the one monkey that is still on the loose,” the post said.”
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Reports indicate all the animals have been accounted for and euthanized, except one.
No need to try to dart the monkeys, just kill them and get it over with, guess they ran out of shit to destroy them more slowly… for the benefit of all mankind…
Can’t make this shit up
Gonzotx – for the record, while my position on animals not being the equivalent of humans remains unchanged, I am very, very sad for these animals, and horrified at the life they had to live. I hope that research technology reaches the point where such treatment of animals is no longer necessary.
That is: while animals are not the equals of humans, that should no be reason to maltreat them unnecessarily.
Didn’t this happen a year or more ago or is this a new incident?
New. The other was 2022 in PA.
I agree completely, I go even further. My two dogs exhibit a level of affection and loyalty unmatched by humans, Ditto for a cat I had many years ago who passed. I spent a small fortunate keeping him alive, and I miss him terribly.
I have had my share of girlfriends, wives, and children, and have known many wonderful people. I’m not any kind of social recluse. In my opinion, our domestic animals deserve full protection in law. Our pets are full members of the family, and we should be able to use lethal force to protect them if necessary.
I’m opposed to using primates as experimental animals. They are too close to us on the evolutionary scale. However, chimps can be very aggressive and dangerous. I guess that comes from being too much like humans.
I read Stephen J. Gould’s Ontogeny and Phylogeny years ago. I have not looked at a chimpanzee the same way since. I consider it the most important science book I have ever read. Not for the faint of heart. It was written as a warm-up for his magnum opus, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (which I found dreary and disappointing), so it is quite dense. But if you can follow it, it’s eye-opening.
Ummmm, isn’t this how several EOTWAWKI movies start?
/facepalm/
Now I’m wondering, though….
How does this relate to the huge improvement in reading scores in that state? Is there a connection?
This is sounding like Planet of the Apes with perhaps a side helping of 12 Monkeys…
12 Monkeys elevated Pitt from just being a pretty boy.
That movie is the smartest time-travel movie I’ve ever seen.
the jokes from this story would have set cities ablaze
and once again….
no pics of the suspects
“The animals carry hepatitis C, herpes and COVID, deputies said.”
CDC monkeypox floggers hardest hit.
“[M]onkeypox floggers” sounds vaguely obscene. Maybe even how you get mpox.
I worked with monkeys for a number of years and would describe them as ferrets on crack on a good day. When I arrived in Portland, I was unpacking my stuff, and in the pocket of a lab coat from Hopkins I found a 2ml syringe with 200mg of ketamine. The second that a coat came back from the laundry, it got a syringe of Special K in the right pocket. Nothing worse than being in an elevator with a monkey whose morphine reversal suddenly sped up. Actually, being on the streets of Portland with meth’d up homeless is probably worse, since the monkeys at least got a shower in their cage every day.
Bet the monkeys really loved that existence
Not
Fate moved its huge hand in this crash. One monkey is named Kimble, and he is using this reprieve, provided by fate, to find the one-armed baboon who murdered his wife.
Well well well
Fauci and his sinister torture of animals is of course behind the lab whose monkeys are missing!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/fauci-funded-tulane-primate-lab-center-mississippi-crash/
According to the most recent 2023 report, the facility confined 5,883 monkeys, raising serious ethical questions about the scale of these operations.
This isn’t the first safety mishap involving Tulane. Most notably, there was a 2014 incident in which two rhesus macaques contracted melioidosis from Burkholderia pseudomallei due to sloppy biosafety practices.
Almost 6000 monkeys being savagely treated
6000!
Justin Goodman, senior vice president at White Coat Waste, told Gateway Pundit:
“The Tulane primate center has a sordid history of wasteful Fauci-funded monkey business, secretive spending, and dangerous lab accidents, and White Coat Waste has been working with Congress to defund it. The NIH shouldn’t be forcing taxpayers to subsidize this primate prison. We’re urging Secretary Kennedy to follow the lead of the first Trump administration and shut down government primate labs and retire the survivors to sanctuary.”
Close them down Kennedy, claims wall these he’ll holes down!!!!!!!!
Scientists: Hey lets take some Wolves and give them the traits of an extinct apex predator the Dire Wolf. You know the kind that used to eat humans.
Scientist: Let’s infect a bunch of monkeys and then send them on a cross country trip. Sounds like a great idea!
Scientist: Lets drill really deep into the ice and see what we can find. Maybe we will find a pathogen that we have no immunity for in the current human race!
People, let me tell you Scientist will kill us all before an Asteroid, Solar Flare, or Climate Change ever has a chance.
Wait, I saw this movie!!