{"id":1601680,"date":"2022-08-11T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601680"},"modified":"2022-08-11T17:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T21:06:24","slug":"report-fear-of-monkeypox-is-making-people-attack-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-fear-of-monkeypox-is-making-people-attack-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Fear of Monkeypox Is Making People Attack Monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-fear-of-monkeypox-is-making-people-attack-monkeys%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Brazilians have started poisoning primates, even though spread is human-to-human<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil&#8221; monkeys \/ Wikimedia Commons\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/robert-schmad\/\" title=\"Posts by Robert Schmad\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Robert Schmad<\/a> \u2022 August 11, 2022 4:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Brazilians have started poisoning monkeys in a misguided effort to stop the spread of monkeypox, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/who-warns-do-not-attack-monkeys-monkeypox-rcna42433?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompting<\/a> an official response from the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>People around Brazil have poisoned at least 10 monkeys, killing 7. Law enforcement officials say the perpetrators poisoned the monkeys because they were afraid of monkeypox, Brazilian news site G1 <a href=\"https:\/\/g1.globo.com\/sp\/sao-jose-do-rio-preto-aracatuba\/noticia\/2022\/08\/10\/policia-abre-inquerito-para-apurar-intoxicacao-e-morte-de-macacos-na-regiao-de-rio-preto.ghtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What people need to know is that the transmission we are seeing is happening between humans,&#8221; a WHO spokeswoman said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all monkeypox infections are occurring in gay men, studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/07\/28\/who-monkeypox-advice-men-sex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-health-and-wellness\/monkeypox-driven-overwhelmingly-sex-men-major-study-finds-rcna39564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shown<\/a>, with public health experts saying that LGBT pride events in June likely increased the spread of the virus. Many mainstream media sources, however, have avoided using the word &#8220;gay,&#8221; the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/new-media-rule-dont-say-gay\/\">reported<\/a>, while some gay activists have said that pointing out the data is &#8220;stigmatizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The WHO, meanwhile, has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/world-health-organization-will-rename-monkeypox-citing-racism\/\">mulled<\/a> changing the disease&#8217;s name in response to claims that the word &#8220;monkeypox&#8221; is itself stigmatizing.<\/p>\n<p>While monkeypox cases have skyrocketed in the last few weeks, prompting left-wing activists to criticize the Biden administration&#8217;s response, the virus usually is mild and &#8220;resolves on its own in a few weeks without any need for medical intervention,&#8221; NBC noted.<\/p>\n<p>A zoo in S\u00e3o Paolo is treating three primates who survived the Brazilian poisonings, a mix of capuchins and marmosets. But anti-monkey attacks are on the rise all over the country, with National Network to Combat Wildlife Trafficking general coordinator Dener Giovanni telling G1 that some Brazilians have also started stoning or shooting monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilians aren&#8217;t the only ones brutalizing monkeys. The Biden administration funded a project that injected male monkeys with female hormones, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admins-transgender-monkey-experiment-in-turmoil-after-free-beacon-report\/\">reported<\/a>, leading many groups to allege animal cruelty.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Brazilians have started poisoning primates, even though spread is human-to-human  &#8220;See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil&#8221; monkeys \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}