A lab monkey is still missing a day after truck carrying 100 crashes in Pa.
Three out of the four lab monkeys on the loose after a Friday tractor-trailer crash have been caught, but one is still on the loose, authorities said.
As of Saturday morning authorities are still searching for one monkey, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are involved in the search.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released the following statement after the crash and escape:
“Because these 100 long-tailed macaque monkeys were headed to a laboratory to be caged, tormented, and killed, they were already in danger — but now the public is, too. The four who got away are undoubtedly terrified and likely injured, and they may be harboring viruses that are transmissible to humans. There is no way to ensure that monkeys are virus-free, and state veterinary and other records show that monkeys in laboratories in the U.S. have been found with tuberculosis, Chagas disease, cholera, and MRSA. The only way to ensure that pathogens don’t jump from monkeys to humans is to stop importing, caging, and experimenting on these animals.”
monkeys were headed to a laboratory to be caged, tormented, and killed
If monkeys were being taken to a laboratory for use in experiments then it is unlikely that they would be infected
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