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Last Wednesday, 43 young female Rhesus monkeys bred for scientific and medical research escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, prompting international media coverage ...

One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis, a primate research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, this week.. Yemassee is a small town about 26 miles from Beaufort ...

Alpha Genesis President and CEO Dr. Greg Westergaard told The Hampton County Guardian during a 2011 interview that the facility is "primarily a breeding facility," and that they raise the ...

The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee — which is just off I-95 in the south of the state — on Wednesday night.

An Alpha Genesis spokesperson confirmed to police that the animals "are too young to carry disease," police said in a statement. "Alpha Genesis currently have eyes on the primates and are working ...

The CEO pf Alpha Genesis, the testing facility where 43 monkeys escaped from last week, has given an update on the employee who may have left doors open, allowing for the escape.

Alpha Genesis research facility in Yemassee, SC is attempting to lure the monkeys in with food, but none have been safely captured. Tranquilizer dart guns may be the last option.

What is Alpha Genesis, the Beaufort County research center where 40 monkeys escaped? The company says it has more than 100 acres of quarantine, breeding, holding and research space.

Thursday 9:55 p.m. update: "The Yemassee Police Department has received an update from Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard regarding the recovery efforts for the escaped primates.

The Zika study came to Alpha Genesis after the virus infected an estimated 1.5 million people in Brazil beginning in 2015, spreading to Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

Alpha Genesis has a "long history of monkey escapes," including six separate, documented incidents of animals opening or escaping their enclosures between January and August of 2022.