A band of herpes-ridden monkeys are roaming across northeastern Florida after escaping from a state park miles away, threatening the locals and the environment.
The rhesus macaques were living at the Silver Springs State Park near Ocala, Florida, but the creatures, native to south and southeast Asia, escaped the area and have since been spotted in Jacksonville, St. Johns, St. Augustine, Palatka, Welaka, and Elkton, Florida, according to First Coast News.
While the monkeys tend to keep to themselves, over a quarter of the 300 feral creatures counted at Silver Spring State Park carried Herpes B, according to a 2018 survey by National Geographic.
While it's extremely rare for herpes B to spread from monkey to human, when it does it can be fatal.
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12 comments:
Rhesus Monkeys. Great for research studies for medicine and disease.
There is really only one way to get the monkey and other feral animals under control and is to put a bounty on them and kill every single one of them.It's too dangerous not to kill them all off.Of course nothing will happen until a child is attacked and then all the bleeding hearts will be making excuses why they didn't support killing them.I wonder what will happen when a giant python kills and eats a human. Put a big bounty on all those dangerous animals NOW.
We’ll do they vote? Or illegals? Or just your average democrat?
4:22 Agree!
Don't have sex with monkeys
A Ruger 10/22 will take care of your problem!
On my way to FL now to eradicate these creatures with my registered hands
Sounds Alot like Salisbury.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Rhesus Monkeys. Great for research studies for medicine and disease.
February 3, 2020 at 4:16 PM
I wonder if the monkeys would agree.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
A Ruger 10/22 will take care of your problem!
February 3, 2020 at 6:16 PM
I used to have one of those when I was a kid. Excellent rifle and most accurate. Wish I still had one.
In 1984 the then-Florida Game and Freshwater fish Commission allowed licensed trappers to cull the monkey population by trapping and hunting them. As a result over a thousand monkeys ended up in zoos or research facilities or were killed.
However, it was a unpopular program with the public and since 2012 there has been no active management of the monkey population.
One way to keep it from spreading is by keeping Bill Clinton and Joe Biden away from them.
Why were they being kept at a State Park in Silver Spring or anywhere in this country?If they were known to have had Herpes they should have been put down or never to have arrived in this country they sure didn't swim here we allowed it.
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