If you had “Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes & COVID overturns in Mississippi” on your Bingo card for today, congrats you’re a winner!

At this point, nothing should really surprise any of us anymore, so I guess this is just par for the course in today’s world.

Wild stuff:

I do have some questions…

Why are we still infecting animals with COVID?

Not to mention Hep-C, herpes and who knows what else?

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And why are they “aggressive” monkeys?

Were they aggressive all along, or did they only turn aggressive after they learned you injected them with all these toxins?

Here’s a look from the scene:

There were 21 monkeys on the truck, 15 remained caged, 6 escaped, 5 were captured, 1 still loose, and 20 euthanized:

Fox News confirmed the following details:

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.

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As of 4:30 p.m. ET, all but one of the escaped monkeys were “destroyed,” according to deputies.

“We are continuing to look for the one monkey that is still on the loose,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Facebook post. “Do not approach the monkeys if you see one. Call 911.”

Tulane University told Fox News Digital the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center provides its nonhuman primates to other research organizations to advance scientific discovery.

“The primates in question belong to another entity and are not infectious,” the university said. “We are actively collaborating with local authorities and will send a team of animal care experts to assist as needed.”

School officials did not confirm the number of monkeys that escaped, the number of monkeys killed or the number of monkeys that remain caged.

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