Woman loses arm after macaque-attack

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-10-15 08:50

A woman had to have her left arm amputated after her husband's pet wild macaque, which was on heat, scratched her last Thursday.

Doctors in Shenyang, Liaoning province, said the diabetic woman would have died if they hadn't cut off her arm.

The woman had advised her husband against keeping the wild monkey at their house a few months ago.

"I wish I had taken her advice then," said her husband, who packed off the monkey to a local zoo after the attack.

(Shenyang Evening News)