Incidents and Controversies
- In 2009 an outbreak of a monkey-killing cold virus identified as an adenovirus infected both monkeys and humans, with the sickness killing about a third of the 65 monkeys there. Only four of the 23 sick monkeys survived the illness.
- The research center was the site of an outbreak in what is being considered the first known case of an adenovirus jumping from monkeys to humans.
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