Monkey Business

[tiggerblue10]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-monkeys-escape-with-covid-19-samples-after-attacking-lab-assistant-11996752

Hopefully the samples were negative.

[Mamyalynne]

It's said they don't think there's any risk of contamination - hopefully true.

They'll pretty much take anything so bold are they.

[andy-hughes]

Life imitates art …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Days_Later

[retrocop]

Oh Dear. Not Good.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/29/monkeys-run-off-coronavirus-samples-attacking-medic-12776646/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&utm_source=pushly

[tiggerblue10]

Great film, Andy.

[tomus42]

the Metro // A troop of monkeys in India are currently on the run with blood samples of four Covid-19 patients.//

'On the run'. pmsl. Using all their cunning monkey ways to evade Interpol then.

[Spicerack]

They might sell them to gorillas. ;-/

[tomus42]

I've seen planet of the apes. This is how it all started. Disgruntled monkeys on the run.

[tiggerblue10]

Haha :o)

Sadly though, there will be a few people not getting their results back.

[Peter Pedant]

for B virus that is !

god I wouldnt go NEAR them ! - this is what we were doing in Porton Down in 1970

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macacine_alphaherpesvirus_1

and this
An entire colony of monkeys at Woburn Safari Park has been culled after the discovery of a virus potentially deadly to humans. Some 215 Rhesus Macaque monkeys were shot by six marksmen after tests revealed they were carrying the Simian Herpes B virus.3 Mar 2000. UK | Park culls monkey colony - BBC News

no I didnt put them up to it - - they kinda knew anyway