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A police search is underway after 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina on Wednesday night.

Police in Yemassee, Beaufort County, said the animals escaped from Alpha Genesis, a business that provides "nonhuman primate products and bio-research services," according to its website.

Traps have been set up and officers are using thermal imaging cameras in an attempt to recapture the animals, police said.

“Residents are strongly advised to keep doors and windows secured to prevent these animals from entering homes,” Yemassee Sheriff’s Department said in a statement. Anyone who finds a monkey should not interact with it but instead call 911, it said.

The company works with monkeys to carry out clinical trials, including on brain disease disorder treatments, and says it has "one of the largest and most comprehensive nonhuman primate facilities, designed specifically for monkeys, in the United States."

The sheriff's department didn't specify the breed of the fugitive primates, but the company's website says it works with macaque and capuchin monkeys.

It is also not known what trials the escaped monkeys were taking part in, nor whether they were exposed to any diseases. Alpha Genesis did not immediately respond to an overnight request for comment from NBC News.

The company secured a federal contract to run a colony of 3,500 monkeys on Morgan Island off the coast of South Carolina, also known as Monkey Island.

The Post and Courier newspaper in Beaufort County reported that primate escapes have happened several times before in the area, including in May this year, and in 2016 when 19 evaded security at Alpha Genesis before they were recaptured six hours later.

In 2022, three monkeys escaped following a traffic accident in rural Pennsylvania.

source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-research-facility-south-carolina-rcna179077
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break these cuffs said:
I'd forgotten the ones in Florida were infected with fucking Herpes B, nightmare shit.
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Yeah they have Herpes, I've heard some of even have fucking Syphillis, and if you're handling bodies with bullets in them you don't need to be Kero the fucking Wolf to catch it.
Problem with Primates is they are so close to us genetically basically anything they get they can infect us with, but worse some populations have nasty shit thats endemic to them, like Koalas in Australia and Chlamydia, that doesn't affect them, but they can give it to humans who get bit, scratched, or even that get blood on them handling dead ones.
The term "carrier monkey" exists for a reason.
If they don't round up these things quick, even a small population will breed and you end up with the problem you have in Florida with the 'caques.
 
Procrastinhater said:
Seriously we have enough trouble with fucking feral Hogs without colonies of fucking baby stealing monkeys breeding in the woods.
I love animals. I'm also a hunter, and I've seen the damage invasive species and vermin can do to an environment they're not suited for.
I'd say just announce an all year open season on them, the problem if these are contaminated with some disease is collecting the bounties.
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All the braindead hippies who can't wrap their mind around the concept that hunting is often essential to conservationism. On the east coast, human development has scared away the bigger natural predators, so if we as a society want to take care of nature and preserve it, we're going to need to step in. And that's going to involve killing things.

Every so often you get doofuses who want to try shit like chemically castrating the deer and it never goes anywhere because it's a retarded idea.

On the other hand, the public here is pretty open to trying to fish invasive species to death. I'm guessing it's a combination of fish being less cuddly than deer and that you can sell the fish commercially so people are occasionally exposed to delicious food.

Snakehead fish have been a growing problem in Chesapeake waterways.
 
And any word on whether these monkeys had been subjected to any procedures at all?
Wild caught monkeys are bad enough disease vectors as is, but if they’re part of some disease research program there’s the added risk of whatever they’ve been giving them
 
Marvin said:
All the braindead hippies who can't wrap their mind around the concept that hunting is often essential to conservationism. On the east coast, human development has scared away the bigger natural predators, so if we as a society want to take care of nature and preserve it, we're going to need to step in. And that's going to involve killing things.

Every so often you get doofuses who want to try shit like chemically castrating the deer and it never goes anywhere because it's a retarded idea.

On the other hand, the public here is pretty open to trying to fish invasive species to death. I'm guessing it's a combination of fish being less cuddly than deer and that you can sell the fish commercially so people are occasionally exposed to delicious food.

Snakehead fish have been a growing problem in Chesapeake waterways.
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They've had to build an electric barrier to try to keep those Asian Carp (I think? The assholes that jump out of the water and hit you in the face when you're on a boat) from spreading into the Great Lakes, invasive species are a huge environmental time bomb in environments they have no predators.
Look at what Cane Toads did to Australia. Or Rabbits for that matter. They outcompete the native Marsupials and an ecosystem that evolved over millenia of isolation is under real threat, that's why the 'Strayans are so serious about customs and quarantining shit.
You don't have to go that far, already mention the fish, and feral Hogs are a serious problem in rural areas, they do hundreds of thousands in property and crop damage. Florida has fucking big ass snakes, Pythons and Boa Constrictors that dipshits buy as pets, not realizing your cute Reticulated Python is going to grow to 20 feet long and could eat your dog, or your kid, if you aren't careful, so they freak out and just release them.
Into the Everglades. Which is like a perfect environment for large constrictors, and apart from the Gators, and a few big cats there aren't the natural predators they have at home.
Hunting is the only way to keep them in check, and protect the animals that are actually meant to be there.
The animal rights people that don't stop to think are a real problem, there's been multiple cases of assholes breaking into labs and releasing animals.
Now I don't like animal testing, (I think we should test that shit on convicted pedos and rapists not animals), but I also don't want a 28 Days Later situation, or more realistically, an invasive species of monkeys with Syphillis adding to the cluster fuck rural land owners and conservationists already have on our plates.
 
Hey it's like that Outbreak movie....hopefully they don't also have ebola.
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This is why they need some kind of way to track lab animals in case of an escape like this, it's all too risky to just be like 'whoops they got out'. Chips, collars, just something that is traceable in some way.
 
Procrastinhater said:
The animal rights people that don't stop to think are a real problem, there's been multiple cases of assholes breaking into labs and releasing animals.
Now I don't like animal testing, (I think we should test that shit on convicted pedos and rapists not animals), but I also don't want a 28 Days Later situation
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The UK legit has had problems with hippies fucking up their ecology releasing shit into the wild for decades. Mink farms, for one. But also recently, hippies destroying / sabotaging gray squirrel traps.
 
Procrastinhater said:
Hunting is the only way to keep them in check, and protect the animals that are actually meant to be there.
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Possums in NZ are killing the native trees and wildlife. It’s an extinction level threat (for example, some trees seeds need to be passed through birds guts to germinate and the fucking possums and rats and stoats have killed all but one species that’s big enough to eat that type of tree seed.) Kiwis were pretty good at trapping them and started up a profitable possum fluff industry to make it an incentive. They were getting there then the animal rights crowd shut down the fur industry and boom; a few years later there were tens of millions more possums and the entire ecology is treated again.

Stupid bastards don’t seem to realise what ecological management entails - sometimes you have to kill stuff.

As for animal testing, my line in the sand is medical vs cosmetic. Nobody needs to test previously tested ingredients in a new combo for floor cleaner on beagles. Some mice used for cancer research is still grim, but permissible. I don’t think we should be using primates at all tbh. The risks to humans are far too high. Another example: in Virginia (I think, somewhere in the states, Reston perhaps?) they passaged Ebola between monkeys and actually seemed to get airborne transmission going. That kind of stuff should be firmly off limits
 
Yes, Reston. There WAS airborne transmission between monks and thank God it wasn’t a strain of Ebola dangerous to humans.

It took a couple of attempts to get all the virus out of the building and when you consider the facility was essentially in a suburban enclave…

You never know when any animal pathogen is going to turn into one that infects humans and can be right nasty.

Hope they capture/kill all the escapees quickly.
 
Otterly said:
Another example: in Virginia (I think, somewhere in the states, Reston perhaps?) they passaged Ebola between monkeys and actually seemed to get airborne transmission going. That kind of stuff should be firmly off limits
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Yeah it was the lab in Reston.
It's covered in a book called The Hot Zone, it was a private company that was storing Rhesus Monkeys for USAMRID, and they started to come down with Ebola.
They thought it was contained to one room, then (in a moment of what must have been sheer horror right out of that movie Outbreak) the monkeys in a room down the hall started to break with symptoms.
They thought it was Ebola Zaire at first, and that it had made the leap to airborne transmition.
Thank fuck when they managed to isolate the sample, it was a slightly different mutation with a thickened protein coat that allowed it to survive in aerosolized droplets, but by sheer divine providence, the mutation that made it airborne also somehow rendered it unable to infect Homo Sapiens cells.

It could have been really bad.
 
Marvin said:
That's fucking wild. Reston is super suburban NoVA. Like where all the federal contractors live so they don't have to be around too many poor DC blacks.

It's stuff like that that makes me realize the elites are way dumber than they are competent schemers.
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Yeah they got lucky, when you see pictures of the companies building where they had the monkeys it's right in the middle of a suburban area, they got lucky, if the mutation that flipped Ebola Zaire into the Reston strain hadn't somehow blocked its ability to infect human cells it could have gotten bad.
The book the Hot Zone is well worth a read.
 
If you're in SC and you see an ape ( tree not pavement) ventilate it and call in an anonymous tip for cleanup. No telling what these things may be carrying and no sense in taking risks to find out.
 
Wait till you guys hear about the florida lab escaped "super herpes" monkeys that have a strain fatal to humans that got out pre-corona. They're still out there inbreeding apparently unless that's changed since lockdown times.
Maybe we need to stop injecting monkeys with incurable and fatal possibly lab borne diseases?

EDIT: was beaten to mention of the florida herpes monkeys, fuck.


mr_negativity said:
Then again it's bunch of stinking monkeys instead of lovable dogs.
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Monkeys are pretty lovable. Sure there's a 50/50 shot if they're gonna maul you or be your best friend ever but when you got the dichotomy of occasionally biting a baby's skull open or protecting a small child from a rape attempt I'd say they're better than dolphins to be around due to the latter
 
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Freshly Baked Socks said:
A police search is underway after 40 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina on Wednesday night.
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o0o0o0o, chimpanzee that. MONKEY NEWS.

Some little monkey fellas escaped, right? One of em went a plane to see his rich cousin in Spain. A few were off to help their mates with a barbers in the jungle. The rest went to hang out with ollie and his human wife.
 
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