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>Knowing all we know and having to endure the slowest awakening of the masses ever is brutal.
Agreed. But still glad I know. Cannot imagine life without QR.
Government stays quiet about 97 lab monkeys that survived Pa. crash
The government remains tight-lipped when it comes to information about the 97 lab monkeys that survived a January accident near Danville.
“We are shaking every tree that we can get our hands on” for information, said Lisa Jones-Engel of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
“I have no idea what happened to those remaining monkeys, where they went for quarantine, the extent of their injuries following the crash, what infectious agents [aside from Herpes B] they were screened for,” she said.
Three of the primates escaped following the accident at the Route 54 interchange of Interstate 80 on Jan. 21. They were caught and euthanized by state police.
The other long-tailed cynomolgus macaques that were headed to a quarantine facility in Missouri were taken somewhere.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/05/government-stays-quiet-about-97-lab-monkeys-that-survived-pa-crash.html
The Very Alive Woman Conspiracy Nuts Say Died of Monkeypox
After a month of close monitoring, officials have yet to identify one death related to the global monkeypox outbreak.
But influential conspiracy theorists insist that they have tracked down at least one victim of the outbreak. Her name is Michele Fallon, and she supposedly died in February—over two months before public health officials identified the first cases of this particular wave of monkeypox.
The thing is, Fallon is very much alive.
“I don’t even know what to say to people who say I’m dead,” she told The Daily Beast in a recent interview. “I’m not.”
On Jan. 21, a dump truck hit another truck carrying about 100 lab research monkeys on a road outside of the town of Danville, Pennsylvania. Fallon, a Danville local who was on the road at the time, witnessed the crash and pulled over to assist. She came into close contact with a few of the monkeys, and a few days later she fell mildly ill, with pinkeye and minor cold symptoms.
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Conspiracy theorists had their eyes on the Jan. 21 monkey truck crash long before the start of the current monkeypox outbreak, which public health officials first identified in early May. In fact, as soon as news of the accident and the temporary escape of three of the monkeys from the truck into the area nearby broke, many conspiracy theorists quickly argued that it was probably a cover story for the planned release of some new bioweapon that would be used to devastate and subjugate the population. In their minds, this would be the obvious next step in a much larger elite plot that encompasses COVID-19 and so much more.
At the time, they didn’t view Fallon as a victim of this vague plot, but instead as an active participant who was feigning exposure and illness. “People made long videos saying I’m a crisis actor and all kinds of weird stuff,” she told The Daily Beast. “They were harassing my family, too, saying that they were part of this whole thing as well.”
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Michele Fallon of Pennsylvania told The Daily Beast that she started seeing people on social media claiming she’d had monkeypox and was now dead almost as soon as she heard about the first case of monkeypox in the United States. She was baffled by the apparent shift in the way conspiracies portrayed her. “One minute you’re saying I’m fake, and now you’re saying I’m real,” she noted, incredulously.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-very-alive-woman-conspiracy-nuts-say-died-of-monkeypox
>she really did get sick, apparently
Yes…
Pa. woman exposed to lab monkeys after crash irked by lack of answers from CDC, state
The Montour County woman who came in contact with lab monkeys following a Danville area accident in January is upset with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and state Health Department.
“For the past two weeks I have been trying to get answers and information [from them],” Michele Fallon said Tuesday. “Standard of care and best practices that apply to laboratory personnel who have been exposed to macaques are clear. The CDC was onsite during the accident. A senior CDC official interviewed me and was told explicitly about my ocular exposure.
“I have been very clear with PA Dept. of Health about my exposure. I deserve answers,” she said.
The Mooresburg resident is irked no one would tell her who ordered or why a Geisinger Clinic mobile unit showed up at her home on Jan. 25 to draw blood. That was four days after the accident occurred.
A Geisinger spokesman told PennLive on Tuesday, “Geisinger does not order infectious disease surveillance testing but may assist public health agencies in such efforts as needed.”
It was not until she went public Tuesday that Fallon said she received some information, including that she tested negative for Herpes B virus.
It was the latest good news, Fallon said, noting she has received her last rabies shot and her irritated and watery right eye is back to normal.
Still, she is frustrated at the lack of information from the CDC and the Health Department, she said, adding that no one can or will tell her whether the remaining 97 monkeys have been screened for the herpes virus or any of the other infectious agents they may have been carrying in their saliva, feces, urine and/or blood.
She does not get a response from the CDC and when she asks the Health Department, she is referred to the CDC, she said.
A CDC spokesperson told PennLive on Tuesday night that all the surviving monkeys are healthy and will be tested if they become ill.
Added Fallon: “I received no counseling before or after being prescribed antivirals. Despite the high risk of my exposure, I have received minimal information describing the signs and symptoms of B virus infection that I need to be watching for.”
Fallon saw the Jan. 21 accident on Route 54 at the Interstate 80 interchange and stopped to help.
She came in direct contact with one of the 100 long-tailed cynomolgus macaques that were being transported and was exposed to their saliva, feces and feces as she assisted righting crates containing the primates.
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Fallon has been in virtual quarantine since the accident and will remain so until Feb. 21.
As a precaution she has not seen her mother, a cancer survivor, and treatments for her medical issues, including surgery, have been put on hold, she said.
Her insurance is going after the CDC to cover her medical bills, Fallon said.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/02/lack-of-answers-from-cdc-health-department-irks-pa-woman-exposed-to-lab-monkeys.html
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