In retrospect, I should apologize for posting such a shitty article from such a shitty source. I did it for the laughs.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    So, reading the short article, only one infected monkey escaped, per the sheriff’s office. Then the University they are from clarified that their infected monkeys are not contagious, and there were no infected monkeys on that truck.

    The monkeys are for primate virology research.

    Nice reminder of just how hard spun headlines are.

    • ApeNo1@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      To be fair to the original poster this news article has been revised multiple times since original publication. When it was first posted the article contents very much matched the headline but subsequent changes were made that included things like the clarifications from the university.