In my mind, performing lab experiments with wild animals conjures up memories of the classic TV commercial from the '70s that contained this famous tagline: "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."
-NW

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
By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 25 January 2022

Bullet points

• 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