A former employee at Elon Musk's brain-computer interface startup Neuralink is suing the company, alleging that she was forced to work with lab monkeys that carried Herpes — and even got scratched by one on her bare skin through a glove.. It's yet another sign that the mercurial CEO likes to crack the whip at his ventures, with a notable disregard for
She claims she was scratched through a glove by a monkey that carried the Herpes B virus, and was never given adequate protective equipment to work with the animals. Short was fired a day after informing her department she was pregnant. She had been promoted two months earlier.that as many as a dozen rhesus macaques suffered from a variety of terrifying symptoms after being implanted with Neuralink chips, including brain swelling, partial paralysis, and self-harming behavior, eventually leading to them being euthanized.