An “aggressive” monkey infected with COVID and multiple sexually transmitted diseases is running loose through Mississippi after a truck overturned on an Interstate and released a pack of the diseased lab primates, officials said.

The truck carrying the cartload of rhesus monkeys from a research center affiliated with Tulane University careened into a ditch north of Heidelberg Tuesday afternoon, according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department .

A truck carrying monkeys infected with COVID, hepatitis C and herpes crashed in Mississippi. Jasper County Sheriff

The 40-pound monkeys carry COVID, hepatitis C, and herpes and are “aggressive to humans,” the department warned. Humans should not handle the animals without PPE, it added.

The truck itself was wrecked, leaving a hole just la

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