In case you thought 2025 couldn’t get any weirder, a truck hauling 21 aggressive, disease-infected monkeys crashed on a Mississippi highway this week, unleashing a public health nightmare no one asked for. The monkeys weren’t just your average zoo escapees either. They were biomedical lab animals reportedly carrying hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID. Yes, all at once. It’s the kind of headline that sounds like satire, but sadly, it’s very real, and it raises some serious questions about what kind of “research” is going on and why these animals were being transported through small-town America in the first place.
Apparently one pandemic wasn’t enough, we’ve got a biological hazard monkey mix running through the backwoods of Mississippi.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office was quick to issue a warning: the monkeys are aggressive, weigh about 40 pounds each, and require PPE to handle. Let that sink in. These aren’t the cute little monkeys you see in diapers on TikTok. These are full-blown lab animals jacked up on pathogens and who knows what else. And they’re not friendly. There’s no “Curious George” energy here, this is more like “Contagion” meets “Jumanji.”
🚨 BREAKING: Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes & COVID overturns in Mississippi
Sheriff says all but one of the animals have been “destroyed.” pic.twitter.com/L9ss4ylJof
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 28, 2025
Now, let’s talk about the real issue: why are we still experimenting on monkeys with diseases like COVID, hepatitis, and herpes in 2025? Haven’t we spent the last five years screaming about public health, gain-of-function research, and biosecurity risks? And yet, universities are still driving these mini-bioweapons across state lines like it’s just another Amazon delivery. Better question, why were these monkeys aggressive to begin with? Is it the diseases, the lab injections, or maybe just the fact that they’ve been locked in cages being pumped full of human viruses?
Tulane, of course, is trying to distance itself from the situation. Their official line is that “the primates in question belong to another entity and are not infectious.” Sure, tell that to the guy in Mississippi who has to explain to his wife why he needs a rabies shot because a COVID monkey ran across his yard.
The whole situation is bizarre, reckless, and more than a little terrifying. If this is “scientific advancement,” maybe it’s time to hit pause.
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