The kids are alright..."Monkey on the loose in San Antonio Airport"

[RevolverRob]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkey-...as-2018-05-21/

Authorities say a monkey went bananas after escaping from its crate Monday at the San Antonio International Airport, CBS affiliate KENS-TV reports.

[JodyH]

Samsonite commercial?

[Stephanie B]

Maybe the monkey was trying to find its emotional support human.


Damn the iPhone Typos!

[Shoresy]

Depending on the luggage it may have been a ... wait for it... a trunk monkey

[RevolverRob]

My wife, "Byline should have said, "Monkey goes apeshit in airport after escaping..."

[pangloss]

Gotta be careful with the monkeys. Herpes B virus is no joke. I'm on record at a previous employer as having been bitten by a monkey which earned me the prize of $1,000 worth of Valtrex. That was a fun week.

[JodyH]

Gotta be careful with the monkeys. Herpes B virus is no joke. I'm on record at a previous employer as having been bitten by a monkey which earned me the prize of $1,000 worth of Valtrex. That was a fun week.

That's a heck of a story you made up to tell your wife.

[RevolverRob]

Gotta be careful with the monkeys. Herpes B virus is no joke. I'm on record at a previous employer as having been bitten by a monkey which earned me the prize of $1,000 worth of Valtrex. That was a fun week.

A very good friend of mine does animal research, previously on monkeys, now on fish. The colony was Herpes B positive. One day, a cage fell over in the research area and sliced through her scrubs and into her skin, leaving her a nice cut that took six stitches to close.

Off to the hospital for 2-weeks of Valtrex and blood panels.

That's a heck of a story you made up to tell your wife.

I keep telling her that shouting out loud, "I've had a valtrex prescription, but don't need it anymore" is not a good way to land a date...

[HCM]

I’m told it was actually a Baboon.

[pangloss]

That's a heck of a story you made up to tell your wife.

Ha! That angle never even occurred to me, but the story is sort of made up. I had a lab exposure to monkey serum, and I guess a lazy worker in employee health just decided to write "monkey bite" in my record. I don't think that I've ever actually touched a monkey. I found out about the false entry a few years later when I had my TB test read and glimpsed my chart over the nurses shoulder.

A very good friend of mine does animal research, previously on monkeys, now on fish. The colony was Herpes B positive. One day, a cage fell over in the research area and sliced through her scrubs and into her skin, leaving her a nice cut that took six stitches to close.

Off to the hospital for 2-weeks of Valtrex and blood panels.

I keep telling her that shouting out loud, "I've had a valtrex prescription, but don't need it anymore" is not a good way to land a date...

That's awful--definitely a much bigger danger than my exposure. As I understand it, monkeys can test negative but then shed virus when they are stressed. The samples I was working with came from "negative" monkeys, but the test isn't entirely trustworthy. (Maybe the tests are better now though. Seems like a decent serology test would be possible.) Mine and my wife's families came to visit for Thanksgiving the following week. I hadn't told them that I might die from Herpes B virus infection, but by that point I was greater than 99% sure I'd be okay (up from about 95% immediately following the exposure). I figured I'd have a little fun with the situation, so I left my giant bottle of Valtrex prominently displayed on the kitchen counter. My wife didn't see the humor in it and disappeared the bottle to our bathroom.