The search continues for 40-plus primates who escaped Wednesday from Alpha Genesis research facility in South Carolina.

Police said they had been informed by Alpha Genesis that the monkeys have never been used for testing and are too young to carry disease.

In a development which directly mirrors the movie 28 Days Later, 40 monkeys have escaped from a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina. The Yemassee Police Department made the bizarre announcement in a statement on Wednesday.

Forty-three rhesus monkeys are on the loose in South Carolina after escaping a primate research and breeding facility.

The search continues after dozens of "skittish" monkeys escaped the Alpha Genesis testing center in South Carolina, officials said.

Officials in rural South Carolina say the female rhesus monkeys escaped into the wild after their pen was left open.

Police say residents of Yemassee, South Carolina, should keep their doors and windows locked until the primates are found.

Residents have been warned to lock windows and doors after 43 monkeys escaped from a research facility in South Carolina. The troupe of female monkeys burst out of an Alpha Genesis building in Yemassee on Wednesday after a caretaker ‘failed to secure doors’,

More than 40 monkeys are now roaming the streets of Yemassee, S.C., after staging an escape from a research facility.