Inner quote from news article.
What’re the odds they’re all the same sex? 25% assuming the usual mix rather than the truckload being preselected at the lab to be some other mix than 50/50 M/F.
So 75% chance we now have a breeding population in the wild. Yaay!
I for one welcome our “non-dangerous” infectious primate overlords. 
What are the odds the driver actually said this? I am automatically skeptical of any news report that quotes a large section of a police statement verbatim and treats it as fact without any evidence to back it up (you’ll notice they didn’t interview the driver to get his side of the story, they just quoted the police statement as fact)
I mean, the limited breeding population would over the centuries lead to genetic collapse, resulting in a primate Hapsburg empire, if you will.
Indistinguishable from the current empire, true, but likely more benign.
Not a plague monkey. (Probably.)
A truck carrying the monkeys overturned Tuesday on Interstate 59 north of Heidelberg. Of 21 the monkeys in the truck, 13 were found at the scene of the accident and arrived at their original destination last week, according to Tulane. Another five were killed in the hunt for them and three remained on the loose before Sunday.
So after this killing the situation is 13 found at the scene of the accident, six killed and two still loose.
Of course, inquiring minds want to know what kind of “firearm” the Mississippi woman used to shoot the monkey. Rhesus monkeys aren’t very big and it was about 60 feet away. If it was a handgun, it was a darn good shot (or two) for a dynamic target while under stress.
@Beckdawrek; You don’t live very far from Mississippi: what’s your best guess as to the type of gun she used? My impression is that rifles and shotguns are much more popular in rural areas while handguns are more popular in urban areas.
Until they start biting humans & infecting them; sure some will perish but others will mate with the monkeys creating a new species, with a stronger gene pool that ends up ruling what is left of the two donor species…at least until a nuclear war; after which the cockroaches finally take over.
Like the time Atticus Finch shot the rabid dog in To Kill A Mockingbird.
They don’t tolerate any of them diseased, aggressive monkeys down there in Mississippi.
I was just telling Mrs. J. that sounds like typical customers at our local Kroger.
You left off syphilis.
Only if the monkey’s name were Alvin
Wonder how many Mississippians will blame their hepatitis C and herpes diagnoses on the monkeys.
Just for the record, by the way, herpes is incredibly common in humans. Pretty much everyone who’s sexually active and not lifelong-monogamous has herpes.
Even lifelong virgins may have herpes. Cold sores, chicken pox, and shingles are all caused by herpes viruses.
The herpes that infects monkeys doesn’t usually make them sick, but it can be a very serious disease in people. It’s not the same as mpox.
Genital herpes is estimated to infect anywhere from 1 in 6 to 1 in 8 Americans.
So the idea that “pretty much everyone” who isn’t “lifelong monogamous” has it is dubious, unless lifelong monogamy is a lot more common than we thought. 
Note: herpes virus HSV-1 (which is more common) mostly affects orofacial sites and HSV-II genital ones, though they can cross-infect.