JASPER COUNTY, Miss. - Tulane University in Louisiana has released updated information after a truck carrying monkeys crashed in Mississippi , causing some animals to escape and be euthanized while three remain on the loose.

The primates were originally thought to have carried infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, herpes and COVID, but the Jasper County Sheriff's Office later retracted that statement, saying the monkeys were not infectious.

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What they're saying:

"Nonhuman primates at the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center are provided to other research organizations to advance scientific discovery," the university said in a statement Wednesday to FOX Television Stations. "This is a co

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