US EditionMississippi Woman Kills Escaped Monkey: ‘Did What Any Other Mother Would Do’
Jessica Bond Ferguson shot an escaped Rhesus monkey to protect her children after warnings of aggression and potential disease, with five others killed during the search, officials said.
- Early Sunday, Jessica Bond Ferguson, a 35-year-old professional chef in Heidelberg, Mississippi, shot a monkey after her 16-year-old son alerted her and she saw it about 60 feet away.
- On Tuesday, a truck carrying 21 Rhesus monkeys overturned on Interstate 59 north of Heidelberg; 13 recovered monkeys arrived last week, while five of the eight ejected monkeys were killed and three remained loose before Sunday.
- Tulane noted the monkeys do not belong to the university and were not being transported by it, and Tulane said recent checkups confirmed they were pathogen-free Wednesday.
- The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks took possession of the monkey and worked with sheriff's officials, while the Mississippi Highway Patrol investigates the crash about 100 miles from Jackson.
- Neighbors voiced alarm that monkeys were running through yards, worrying about children, while Alpha Genesis employees set traps as the search follows a similar escape of 43 Rhesus macaques one year earlier.
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U.S. Woman Shot and Killed an Escaped Lab Monkey to ‘Protect Her Children’
Remember those monkeys from last week? The lab monkeys that escaped a crashed truck that, for a moment, everyone thought were riddled with disease? A Mississippi woman shot one of the remaining escapees when it appeared in her yard. It started when a truck carrying 21 Rhesus macaques used as test subjects for biomedical research flipped over on Interstate 59. It sounds like the setup for a zombie movie, but it was actually much tamer than that. …
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A few days ago we brought you the extremely strange story of aggressive monkeys who were pumped full of Hepatitis C, Herpes and COVID running loose in Mississippi after a truck carrying them overturned. Yes, I know that is a wild sentence, I still can’t believe I typed it. But that’s what happened, details here: BREAKING: Truck Hauling ‘Aggressive’ Monkeys Carrying Hepatitis C, Herpes & COVID Overturns In Mississippi
Mom Shoots Escaped Lab Monkey: "I did what any other mother would do to protect her children”
Watch Louder with Crowder every weekday at 11:00 AM Eastern, only on Rumble Premium!Last week, a truck carrying lab monkeys turned over, and several that survived the crash escaped. Authorities promised the public that these monkeys were not infected with transmissible diseases, such as HIV. However, reports did indicate that they were dangerous, which has since been proved to be true."I did what any other mother would do to protect her children…
A monkey who had escaped from the truck that overturned on a Mississippi highway in the United States was shot down to...
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