{"id":139684,"date":"2022-05-22T04:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T09:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/pennsylvania-woman-being-treated-for-rabies-after-encountering-monkey-in-aftermath-of-crash"},"modified":"2022-05-22T04:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T09:02:18","slug":"pennsylvania-woman-being-treated-for-rabies-after-encountering-monkey-in-aftermath-of-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/pennsylvania-woman-being-treated-for-rabies-after-encountering-monkey-in-aftermath-of-crash","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania woman being treated for rabies after encountering monkey in aftermath of crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pennsylvania-woman-being-treated-for-rabies-after-encountering-monkey-in-aftermath-of-crash.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A woman who happened upon the Friday crash of a pickup towing a trailer transporting 100 monkeys is being treated after a monkey spit at her and she developed pink-eye symptoms. #Conjunctivitis \u2026Is Conjunctivitis a symptom of #monkeypox<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating the accident,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2022\/01\/22\/pennsylvania-crash-truck-100-monkeys-one-loose\/6621640001\/\" target=_blank rel=noopener class=gnt_ar_b_a> which occurred on an east-central Pennsylvania highway<\/a>, and the subsequent attempts to round up some of the cynomolgus macaque monkeys who had escaped from their crates.<\/p>\n<p>The accident involved the collision of the pickup and a dump truck near the Danville exit on Interstate 80. Pennsylvania State Police said several monkeys had escaped following Friday\u2019s collision and one remained unaccounted for overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Michele Fallon, the Danville, Pennsylvania woman who came upon the crash told <a href=https:\/\/www.pressenterpriseonline.com\/ target=_blank rel=noopener class=gnt_ar_b_a>the Press Enterprise newspaper<\/a> when she and another motorist who stopped to help, the other driver said he thought he saw a cat run across the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who happened upon the Friday crash of a pickup towing a trailer transporting 100 monkeys is being treated after a monkey spit at her and she developed pink-eye symptoms. #Conjunctivitis \u2026Is Conjunctivitis a symptom of #monkeypox People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}