Monkeys in Florida have deadly herpes, so please don’t touch them The virus doesn’t bother the monkeys, but can be fatal to humans ...

The Silver Spring monkeys are rhesus macaques, a species not native to Florida, originating from south and southeast Asia.

Lori Lehner, who played a central role in the infamous "Silver Spring monkeys" case when she opened her house to 17 laboratory monkeys in 1981, died of leukemia June 2 in Tampa. She was 45 and had ...

For decades, monkeys have roamed around Silver River State Park and Silver Springs, a delight for tourists and a headache for state land managers.

The trees overlooking the sapphire water of the Silver River are home to a long-armed species that is one of Florida’s wonders. For more than 75 years, monkeys native to Central and East Asia ...

Monkeys have been living around Silver River State Park since the 1930s. Although tourists love them, officials worry the animals carry diseases and have allowed a trapper to catch hundreds.

A kayaker shared a video of a group of monkeys moving across the Silver River.

A new study says macaque monkeys in Florida's Silver Springs State Park are excreting herpes B virus. Officials say they'll be removed.

Rhesus macaques, primates brought from Asia in the 1930s to entice more tourists to an area now known as Silver Springs State Park, likely prey on eggs of the park’s birds, a new University of ...

But the Silver Springs rhesus monkeys have been the source of great and raging controversy because of a virus they carry: the herpes B virus, harmless to them, but deadly to people.

For decades, monkeys have roamed around Silver River State Park and Silver Springs, a delight for tourists and a headache for state land managers. For years the state has allowed a trapper to catch… ...