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Wild monkeys with killer herpes are breeding like crazy in Florida
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#12Don't take this as me wanting it to happen, but what would it take for the decision to be made to kill these monkeys, and who would make it? Is there a state or federal agency that's ever determined an animal to be a threat to people in an area to the degree that they then tried to wipe it out? Does it matter that the monkeys got put here because some company thought tourists would like them?
I certainly would want it to happen if I lived there. I like all sorts of wildlife, but introducing invasive species is not something to be taken lightly.
Perhaps it's something for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to consider? They seem to be the one in charge of Burmese Python control in the Everglades.
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#14"Wild Monkeys With Killer Herpes" is the name of my next movie. Or band.
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#15I remember reading "Summer of the Monkeys" in elementary school. I guess I didn't understand the level of foreshadowing in that book.
Art imitates life or is it life imitates art.
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#16They should quit monkeying around so much. ;)
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#17Don't take this as me wanting it to happen, but what would it take for the decision to be made to kill these monkeys, and who would make it? Is there a state or federal agency that's ever determined an animal to be a threat to people in an area to the degree that they then tried to wipe it out? Does it matter that the monkeys got put here because some company thought tourists would like them?
The US has laws that essentially "unprotect" certain invasive species and encourage the hunting of them.
Unfortunately, infected monkeys aren't really useful for anything.
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#18Curious to learn more about this herpes variant?
Check out wiki, which has links to some papers.
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#19Non-blogspam source: https://www.wftv.com/news/local/wild-monkeys-with-herpes-in-...
That site may not be blogspam, but it is definitely some sort of spam. Sadly, this is par for the course: almost all news sites are absolute garbage these days. Worse, they are trapped in a death spiral that forces them to be more spammy each passing day.
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#20I might be excessively critical, but I don't like these two sentences in the article:
- "... a type of herpes lethal to humans."
- "But in humans, McHV-1 can cause a flu-like illness that can progress..."
I'm not clear -- is this always lethal (as I understand the first sentence to be) or is there some survival rate (as I understand the second sentence to be). I haven't yet found any clarification on McHV-1 online yet -- anyone know?
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