• @[email protected]
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    11 day ago

    As a matter of fact, yes. I was talking to a vet at a friend’s wedding, and he casually mentioned that working with simians is a dangerous field for many reasons that you wouldn’t think of, like their herpesvirus strains killing us.

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      01 day ago

      Luckily it says it’s extremely rare

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        11 day ago

        Well, yeah. The only way to get it is from contact with an infected monkey, or something that has recently contacted them, like a needle.

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          With no end to deforestation in sight, and fixing the housing crisis, monkeys have been sharing crack houses with humans