43 monkeys escape SC research facility

St. Widge said
I mean I'm really more concerned with the being unreasonably cruel to a highly intelligent animal, but I know there are risks involved with the work. I'm not sure COVID was really related to labs, and tend to think it really was just something that occured in nature, but I haven't spent a lot of time looking into it so maybe it is linked.

Anway, I do know for a fact that some of the stuff in the Dr. Mary's Monkey book shown above is true. I don't know about all the links to the Kennedy assassination or David Ferry/the CIA/Bay of Pigs, but I do know that the Polio vaccine (the scratch vaccine) which was being worked on at Tulane was contaminated by the Simian Virus 40 (SV40) and that as a result SV 40 infected humans. It didn't really do much as far as making them sick. Except that there is research out there that infection by SV 40 through the Polio vaccine made people more likely to contract Mesothelioma. They think it weakened cell walls in the mesothelial cells that line the lung which allowed asbestos fibers to more easily penetrate them and cause mutations that lead to mesothelioma.

Anyway, as far as use of monkeys, I've seen things showing that computer models work just as well, maybe better. But, I'm honestly not sure if there are things that require the use of monkeys. But, I do think that they shouldn't do it unless it's absolutely necessary. I don't know, maybe I watched Project X with Matthew Broderick too many times as a kid.

Edit: On a side note, I once went into the infectious disease lab that Tulane had on the roof of Charity Hospital pre-Katrina. There were all sorts of nasty viruses stored in there to be used in research to find vaccines.

After reading this well-thought out, descriptive reply, does the name Plum Island near Montauk, NY which during the Cold War, post-WWII era supposedly created and performed experiments on various species of primates, monkeys, rats, and other vermin species using chemical, biologically-laced ticks, fevers, rashes and other possible infectious diseases that was pioneered by a former Nazi German SS biological warfare pioneer scientist who experimented with using and spreading infected lice and rats against Lodz ghetto armed Jewish rebels who turned on their Nazi oppressors in a violent, bloody and protracted standoff for several months in late 1942-March 1943 called the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by historians.

This was during the period when after the Wannasee Conference decided upon its industrial-scale deportation and eventual murder of millions of European Jews, left-wing anti-Nazi political dissidents, opponents that saw Wehrmacht troops and SS Einzsangruppen squads liquidate all of the Polish, French and German ghettos, and concentration camps.