43 monkeys escape SC research facility

[Brandon13]

I guess we can just be thankful that this didn’t happen in Florida.

We're already into the monkey business thank you very much:

Wild monkey sightings in Florida prompt warnings from officials

A Rhesus macaque monkey was spotted in Orange City, prompting officials to warn people not to feed or try to capture the monkeys, which can become aggressive when fed.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[The Nomad]

WHEW- not Tulane Primate Center. ( my kids school is literally next door )

I remember when...

 

[itztime]

never read that book

just spent last 20 min on the forward section- compelling.

It’s a good read! She was my dads doctor when he was a kid.

 

[Saintman2884]

Isn’t this what happened in Planet of the Apes?
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Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina but the nearby police chief said there is “almost no danger” to the public.

“They are not infected with any disease whatsoever. They are harmless and a little skittish,” Yemassee Police Chief Gregory Alexander said Thursday morning.

The Rhesus macaque primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis facility Wednesday when a new employee didn’t fully shut an enclosure, Alexander said.

The monkeys are females weighing about 7 pounds (3 kilograms) and are so young and small that they haven’t been used for testing, police said.

Alpha Genesis employees “currently have eyes on the primates and are working to entice them with food,” police said in a statement issued around noon Thursday.……

43 monkeys escape from a South Carolina medical lab. Police say there is no serious danger

A police chief in South Carolina says there is no “almost no danger” to the public after 43 monkeys escaped from a medical lab.

apnews.com

The Sy/Fy channel came out with a surprisingly good, well-acted, and intriguing TV series adaptation of the 1995 film 12 Monkeys that IMHO, was better, and more interesting than the film version in some areas particularly the crazy geneticist-turned-psychotic female version of Brad Pitt's character about 10 years ago and expanded upon the series' universe's plot, background and characters in a believable way. The series ended in a nice, fulfilling "Job Well Done" manner.

This was back when the Sci-FY Channel was actually coming out with better, intelligent, less silly and campy and convoluted series about a decade ago compared to some of the more recent drivel they've put out.

 

[Saintman2884]

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.

 

[Paul]

As long as nobody has sex with them we’ll be okay . . .

Too late.
I mean that’s what a friend told me.
I mean, is it too late? Asking for a friend?

 

[superchuck500]

Too late.
I mean that’s what a friend told me.
I mean, is it too late? Asking for a friend?

 

[Optimus Prime]

1 monkey recovered safely, 42 others remain on the run from South Carolina lab

Officials say one of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[superchuck500]

1 monkey recovered safely, 42 others remain on the run from South Carolina lab

Officials say one of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in South Carolina has been recovered unharmed.

apnews.com

43 monkeys escaped from the lab
43 monkeys escaped
Round one up, take him back
42 monkeys escaped from the lab

 

[Saintman2884]

I wonder if this guy has read enough of the novels and all the many, numerous film adaptations of Planet of the Apes franchise to realize that Ceaser apart, most of those evolved, sophisticated apes wouldve made most humans mindless, feral-like slaves due to some simian flu pandemic that got released not too long after the original Ape uprising succeeded.

Strange thing is, in both Planet of the Apes film adaptations, Ceaser wasn't the bad guy and just wanted evolved ape hybrids to be treated as equals with humans or their community be left alone but unfortunately, most humans refused to tolerate them. And despite later generations of evolved apes turning him into mini-defied symbol of ape political, cultural domination thousands of years later, Ceaser was a true believer in mutual peaceful co-existence, tolerance and equality with humans and wouldve likely been horrified at his descendants turning humans into slaves, brutally mistreating and abusing them as much as humans once brutally did the same to him.

 

[Saintman2884]

But ask yourself, Guido, did you really try to make it like the protagonists supposedly attempted to or articulated by Carole King in this song?

 

[superchuck500]

Objection

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Objection

Double objection!!