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Mania Over Escaped 'Infected' Monkeys in Mississippi — 1 Still AWOL | Weird But True
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2:54Now PlayingMississippi has gone bananas. After a truck carrying 21 lab monkeys flipped over on the side of the highway, three of the research animals escaped into the wild. One protective mother in Heidelberg, Miss., took matters into her own hands. Early reports also falsely claimed the primates were infected with COVID, hepatitis C and herpes. "That’s how zombie movies start," quipped one reader of The Post. Find out more in this episode of "Weird But True" hosted by Andrew Court.
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