JASPER COUNTY, Miss. ( WDAM /Gray News) - New developments have surfaced a week after a crash on a Mississippi highway that involved a truck carrying 21 monkeys, resulting in the escapes of three of them.

Twenty-one Rhesus monkeys owned by PreLabs, LLC , a biomedical research organization, were being transported in a truck that overturned last Tuesday on Interstate 59 in Jasper County. According to Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson, five of the monkeys were shot and killed at the accident site, while 13 remained caged on the truck.

Three of the monkeys escaped following the crash. According to an incident narrative, a Jasper County deputy was informed the monkeys were test monkeys from Tulane University and “possibly carried Hep C, Herpes, and Covid.” Tulane and PreLabs have since

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