Airport K9 sniffs out mummified monkeys in Boston luggage, preventing “potential danger” – CBS Boston

BOSTON – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection K9 detected mummified monkey remains inside luggage at Boston’s Logan Airport last month, preventing meat that can potentially carry dangerous diseases like the Ebola virus from entering the country, federal authorities said.

On January 8, K9 Buddey alerted officers to a bag belonging to a passenger who just arrived on a Delta flight from Paris. The person was coming back to the U.S. after visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo, Customs and Border Protection said.

The passenger said the bag only had dried fish inside, and a luggage x-ray seemed to confirm that. But a physical inspection revealed “the dead and dehydrated bodies of four monkeys,” the agency said.

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