The World - News from Jan. 4, 1985

A Canadian animal rights group that stole an experimental monkey infected with a deadly herpes virus said it may destroy the animal. Other animals stolen from the University of Western Ontario may be placed in private homes, it said. A group calling itself the Animal Liberation Front broke into the university’s laboratories on New Year’s Day and stole three cats and a 15-year-old rhesus monkey, said to be infected with herpes B virus, which can cause encephalitis in humans. A spokesman for the animal rights group said the monkey will be destroyed if it indeed has the herpes B virus.