Over Hundred Monkeys Killed By Brazilians To Stop Yellow Fever Spread
By Pritha Paul @ZiggyZina143 On 02/12/18 AT 5:10 AM
Hundreds of monkeys were found dead in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after a recent rise in yellow fever cases. Authorities suspect that about 69 percent of the deaths were due to illegal killings of the primates by humans.
Residents in Rio have falsely assumed that monkeys in the area were helping the spread of yellow fever — a disease that claimed the lives of 25 so far in 2018.
Fabiana Lucena, who works as coordinator at the Rio Veterinary Center, where the bodies of the monkeys were brought in for autopsy, said the locals were making a huge mistake in fatally attacking the primate population due to their inaccurate notion about yellow fever.
Read more at: http://www.ibtimes.com/over-hundred-monkeys-killed-brazilians-stop-yellow-fever-spread-2652485
Reading the rest of the article, according to Lucena, it does more harm to kill the monkeys than good.
