Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey. Sporadic human infections were detected across Africa and Asia from the 1960s to the 1980s. Since 2007 outbreaks of Zika ...

A public safety alert has been issued in Mississippi after a lorry carrying rhesus monkeys overturned on Interstate 59 near Heidelberg, releasing several of the animals into surrounding woodland.