A medical lab in South Carolina says that there is “almost no danger” to the public from 43 monkeys that escaped from a lab.
ALMOST!?
“They are not infected with any disease whatsoever. They are harmless and a little skittish,” Yemassee Police Chief Gregory Alexander said Thursday morning.
According to ABC News, “the Rhesus macaque primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis facility Wednesday when a new employee didn’t fully shut an enclosure.”
The monkeys have not been recovered but researchers say that they know how to do it with fruit. Locals are being asked to shut their windows and doors so the primates don’t sneak in and hide in their homes.
This same lab has had primates escape before. It was fined in 2018 after dozens of primates escaped. They also lost 26 primates in 2014 and 19 in 2016.
