Driver who stopped to help in monkey accident, feeling bad, CDC urges anyone in contact with the macaques to seek medical attention.

Geisinger Medical Center is the hospital where Michele went. It's a regular hospital. Not a wildlife quarantine location.

I believe the lab is Florida was to be the last stop. A laboratory.
The facility in Danville was probably for a mandatory 30 day quarantine - mandatory when coming into this country. I think there is also a CDC quarantine facility in the Detroit Michigan area. Quarantine sites for non human primates entering USA are not doing lab work.


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The term “nonhuman primate” means all nonhuman members of the order Primates, including but not limited to animals commonly known as monkeys, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, gibbons, apes, baboons, marmosets, tamarins, lemurs, and lorises….
…All NHPs imported into the United States must be held in a CDC-approved quarantine facility for at least 31 days after arrival. During the quarantine period, the NHPs must be tested for tuberculosis and monitored for signs of illness that could represent a zoonotic disease (a disease that can spread from animals to humans). NHPs that die of any cause other than injury during the quarantine period must have additional testing performed. Quarantine requirements for imported NHPs are designed to prevent zoonotic diseases from spreading to the public.…
… A CDC permit is required for importing NHP products that have NOT been treated to render them noninfectious.
Untreated NHP products may only be received by a facility equipped to handle potentially infectious NHP materials.)

We don’t know what the monkeys were potentially expose to in Africa, either in the wild or in another facility of some sort.

Additionally, I, ( not trolling, not kidding) I did read in early reports that
the lady stepped in some Monkey poo.
Probably others did too. All responders at the scene re at risk.
That’s where the problem could be.

So, were these monkeys infectious or not?

conjunctivitis

In the majority of cases, Zika Virus infection is asymptomatic – persons do not exhibit symptoms. Those with symptoms usually get ill 3-12 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. Symptoms include mild fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, nausea, vomiting, and general malaise. The illness is characterized by pink eye (inflammation of the conjunctiva), a skin rash with red spots on the face, neck, trunk, and upper arms which can spread to the palms or soles, and sensitivity to light. Some may also have a lack of appetite, diarrhea, abdominal pain, constipation, and dizziness. Most people fully recover from the illness within 7 days. Treatment includes supportive care of symptoms. There is no antiviral treatment available.

The Zika Virus is related to Dengue, Yellow Fever, West Nile Virus, and Japanese Encephalitis. It may be misdiagnosed for Dengue and Chikungunya.

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: CDC urges anyone in contact with the macaques to seek medical attention.



A truck carrying around 100 monkeys that crashed in Pennsylvania is now sparking fears of infection after a woman who came into contact with the primates began to feel unwell.

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.

Four of the animals escaped and were seen sitting among the wreckage before they fled.

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.

Fallon has been told to keep a close eye on her health for the next month in case she develops any infectious disease as a result of being so close to them.

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28 days later......

Reston virus (RESTV) is one of six known viruses within the genus Ebolavirus. Reston virus causes Ebola virus disease in non-human primates; unlike the other five ebolaviruses, it is not known to cause disease in humans, but has caused asymptomatic infections. Reston virus was first described in 1990 as a new "strain" of Ebola virus (EBOV). It is the single member of the species Reston ebolavirus, which is included into the genus Ebolavirus, family Filoviridae, order Mononegavirales.Reston virus is named after Reston, Virginia, US, where the virus was first discovered.

Hey. There are cat people (ladies and gentlemen) here. Not dumb either. Okay?

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Phylogenetic analyses revealed that RESTV is most closely related to the Sudan virus, which causes a high mortality rate in humans.