The drivers of the trucks weren’t harmed and a passenger was transported to a medical center for treatment of suspected minor injuries, according to the state police’s crash report.Ī crash witness, Michelle Fallon, told the Press Enterprise newspaper of Bloomsburg that she spoke with the pickup driver and a passenger after the crash. Lesher said state police secured the scene for the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the CDC. It is hard to say how they would react to a human approaching them.” Trooper Lauren Lesher had said the concern was “due to it not being a domesticated animal and them being in an unknown territory. A 2015 paper posted on the website of the National Center for Biotechnology Information referred to them as the most widely used primate in preclinical toxicology studies.Įarlier, police had earlier urged people not to look for or capture any monkey, with troopers tweeting: “Anyone who sees or locates the monkey is asked not to approach, attempt to catch, or come in contact with the monkey. The location of the quarantine facility and the type of research for which the monkeys were apparently destined weren’t clear, but cynomolgus monkeys are often used in medical studies. The collision occured Friday on a state highway near an Interstate 80 exit in Pennsylvania’s Montour County, Trooper Andrea Pelachick told The Daily Item newspaper of Sunbury.
The Atlanta-based CDC said the agency was providing “technical assistance” to state police in Pennsylvania. The shipment of monkeys was en route to a CDC-approved quarantine facility after arriving Friday morning at New York’s Kennedy Airport from Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island nation, police said. But Nordlund said those euthanized were done so humanely according to American Veterinary Medical Association guidelines. The email did not elaborate on why the three were euthanized or how all came to be accounted for.
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