What is PETA saying about the response to escaped monkeys in Mississippi?

Can macaques transmit diseases to humans?

Animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals broke its silence Friday on the missing monkey situation in Mississippi and blasted both the CDC and Tulane University for their responses, and lack of, on the event.

"Three escaped rhesus macaques are still being hunted in Jasper County, and the only information the public has received about the potential for the spread of a nasty disease has come from Tulane National Primate Research Center , a facility with a lengthy record of federal violations and a vested interest in downplaying risk," PETA senior science advisor on primate experimentation Lisa Jones-Engel said in a written statement. "Where i

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