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Driver who stopped to help when truck carrying 100 lab monkeys crashed in Pennsylvania and put her hand in one of the cages says she now has a cough and pink eye after one of the macaques HISSED in her face
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ion-fears.html
Woman who stopped to help monkeys in truck crash is now feeling unwell
Michelle Fallon, from Danville near Scranton, was directly behind the truck
Fallon said the day following the accident she developed a cough and pink-eye
She has begun a course of antiviral drugs and treatment to prevent rabies
The last of the four escaped monkeys was accounted for by late Saturday
One of the cynomolgus macaques, which are also known as crab-eating or long-tailed macaques, was found in a tree
Pennsylvania residents had been warned not to engage a crab-eating macaque that escaped from a truck carrying 100 of them to a lab
Crates with live monkeys inside were strewn across State Route 54 in Danville, 130 miles from Philadelphia, after the crash
A witness said he thought he saw a cat run across the road before making the shocking realization that it was actually a fleeing primate
By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 02:33 EST, 25 January 2022 | UPDATED: 08:59 EST, 25 January 2022
A woman who stopped to help after a truck carrying 100 lab monkeys crashed in Pennsylvania fears she's caught an illness after one of the macaques hissed in her face, leaving her with pink eye symptoms.
Michelle Fallon, from Danville near Scranton, was driving directly behind the vehicle when it crashed, throwing animal crates all over the highway and smashing some to pieces. Three of the macaques escaped and went on the run, but all have since been captured and humanely euthanized. All of the other monkeys - who'd arrived in the US from Mauritius that morning, and were en route to a lab, have been accounted for.
Fallon has now had a rabies shot, and wrote about the symptoms she has since suffered on Facebook - and also told PA Homepage that she'd developed symptoms of pink eye - an inflammation or infection of the eye ball.
She said: 'I was close to the monkeys, I touched the crates, I walked through their feces so I was very close. So I called (a helpline) to inquire, you know, was I safe?
'Because the monkey did hiss at me and there were feces around, and I did have an open cut, they just want to be precautious.'
Fallon said she got out to help both the driver and the animals in their cages, initially believing them to be cats. When she approached and put her hand on the cage, she says the monkey hissed at her.
The day following the accident, Fallon suddenly developed a cough and pink eye, which became so bad that she had to visit the emergency room at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.
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