📍CDC warns re close contact with @CDCgov lab monkeys—“If within 5 feet of the 🙊crates without respiratory & eye protection, monitor yourself for signs of illness including fever, fatigue, cough, diarrhea, & vomiting." ➡️Monkeys were not CDC quarantined. A bystander also sick🧵 
2) apparently the 100 monkeys headed to the CDC lab were from Africa and **were not quarantined**! What kind of animal import protocol is this? ➡️ plus, the woman stepped in the monkey feces. pahomepage.com/news/danville-…
3) “Since the monkeys were not quarantined and monitored, the CDC told Fallon she needs to take precautions because she was in close contact.
According to the CDC, this species commonly spreads herpes virus B through saliva, feces or urine.
According to the CDC, this species commonly spreads herpes virus B through saliva, feces or urine.
4) “Fallon says she grew concerned because she has an open cut on her hand and developed pink-eye like symptoms, so she went to the emergency room at Geisinger Danville.”
5) It’s not everyday that @CDCgov representatives fly out to rural Pennsylvania (Danville is in the middle of the state surrounded by Appalachia mountains)— if the CDC monkeys were headed to a lab, escaped, euthanized—➡️we should be told what was special about the monkeys.
6) the monkeys were flown from Mauritius to NYC @JFKairport, and then trucked. But no quarantine! Oh c’mon CDC. timesleader.com/news/1536110/t…
7) some reports say 4 monkeys escaped, while others say 3 escaped. But that they were euthanized. But with gunshots. Does “bullet” really count as euthanasia? wnep.com/article/news/l…
8) the sick woman was given 14 day course of Valacyclovir—“used to treat herpes virus infections, including herpes labialis (also known as cold sores), herpes zoster (also known as shingles), and herpes simplex (also known as genital herpes) in adults.“ mayoclinic.org/drugs-suppleme…
9) All the major outlets say 3 monkeys, but also that all monkeys accounted for. I’m going to assume maybe the 4th was a miscount. But the part about the monkeys being euthanized was sad. Likely research lab monkeys according to the article. So sad. abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir…
10) my question for @CDCgov — Why wasn’t the truck carrying the monkeys marked indicating it was carrying potentially bio-hazardous contents? or very least have better trailer locks against contents of monkey crates spilling all across the highway? Or quarantine them before hand?
11) plus, if the @CDCgov needed to issue this warning letter to first responders and close contacts, then precautions should have been taken before hand with the truck! Which again, the truck was headed to a CDC lab in Missouri without prior quarantine of the African monkeys. 🤦🏻♂️
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