monkey enclosure to steal coins could have contracted a "potentially fatal" herpes virus.The intruder is being urged to receive medical attention by authorities in Tasmania after he entered the enclosure, which houses macaque monkeys, on Tuesday night (August 9).Having damaged the electric fence, the man went on to pocket the money he had targeted from a surrounding moat. READ MORE: Loo roll for North Korean elites only as hotels and restaurants use cut up newspapersThe city of Launceston council have warned him that his theft could incur a higher cost with his life at risk from the herpes B virus that most macaques carry.A council spokesperson said: "The virus can be asymptomatically shed by the monkeys through bodily fluids and ‘fomites’ – that is, any material that has come into contact with the virus, which includes the water in the enclosure.
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