re: Feral monkeys potentially carrying deadly virus have moved into northeast Florida

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I guess it was inevitable that liberals would find their way into northeast Florida and the deadly virus they carry is their ideology

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We don't have but a sprinkling of them up here, at least in my county.

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Putnam's population relative to the whole of NE Florida is nothing.

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We aim to keep it that way too. It has fricked up St. Johns County.

827 sq.miles for 73,464 souls is getting a little congested.

Been there

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Between March 28 and April 7, 1987, four persons were admitted to hospitals in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze, Florida, with illnesses that were later confirmed to be caused by infection with B-virus... Three were monkey handlers with the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL) at the Pensacola Naval Air Station; the fourth was the wife of one of the three handlers.

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Patient 2: On about March 10, a 37-year-old male who had been employed as a biological technician for 13 years suffered a penetrating wound which may have been a monkey bite or scratch on the left forearm...a presumptive diagnosis of herpes zoster versus herpes simplex was made. Topical acyclovir was prescribed, but the patient treated himself only with topical hydrocortisone cream. Over the next several days, he developed numbness in his left arm, chest pain, dyspnea, fever, confusion, lethargy, diplopia, and dysphagia. He made several visits to emergency rooms before being hospitalized on March 28...the patient's condition deteriorated, and he died on April 28.

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This was at the hospital where my wife was employed as a medical technologist.

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Patient 4: The 29-year-old wife of Patient 2 applied hydrocortisone cream to her husband's skin lesions beginning about March 18. During this time, she also applied this cream to an area of contact dermatitis under a ring on her finger....on April 1, she was seen by a dermatologist who performed a culture of samples taken from the lesion and prescribed oral acyclovir. On April 7, the culture was reported positive for B-virus, and the patient was hospitalized and placed on intravenous acyclovir. Her dermatitis cleared, and the disease did not progress further.

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Unfortunately for her, by this time the news of her husband’s condition and her subsequent hospitalization had been widely reported in the local news, so her neighbors decided to take the precaution of setting fire to her house.

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Forty-nine persons who had direct (skin-to-skin or body-fluid-to-skin) contact with the patients before diagnosis are under clinical and laboratory surveillance for B-virus infection. No cases of infection or illness suggestive of B-virus have been detected among this group.

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My wife was one of the 49. The CDC continued testing everyone who was exposed for another two years.

tl;dr version: don’t frick around with monkeys. Ever.

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Monkey's are a natural carrier of the Herpes B Virus. If potentially exposed and treated within a certain window chances of contracting the virus is pretty low.

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Yep.

In the case of Patient 2 above, his exposure occurred while he had taken the infected animal home with him in blatant violation of strict protocols. When he first started experiencing symptoms of infection, he lied to hospital personnel in order to avoid discovery of his misconduct. By the time he was hospitalized it was already too far advanced to save him.

Fortunately for his wife (and mine, and the other exposed healthcare workers), the truth came out in time for effective treatment.

So, are you telling me I have to stop screwing monkeys or the Feral ones?