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China keeps a promise on behalf of animals used in cosmetics testing

March 23, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Chinese-made beauty & personal care products were already exempt from animal testing requirements.  Now most imported beauty & personal care products are exempt as well. BEIJING––The National Medical Products Administration of China on March 4,  2021 quietly kept an eight-year-old promise on behalf of animals,  announcing that after May 1,  2021 it will no longer […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Alternatives, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, China, Feature Home Top, Lab animals, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Science, USA Tagged With: Casey Hall, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Mohsina Dodhiya, Sara Amundson, Tiffany Ap

Diseased pigs & mink gave the world COVID-19, scientists suspect

March 18, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Forthcoming World Health Organization report is expected to confirm Chinese investigators’ suspicions          BEIJING, BOSTON, WUHAN––Will a World Health Organization report expected to be released within days indict the Chinese mink industry for infecting the world with COVID-19?          Beijing University researchers have already suspected for more than a year that mink farming was likely […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food security, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Science, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Dan Silver, Ecohealth Alliance, Linfa Wang, Merritt Clifton, Michaeleen Doucleff, Peter Daszak

“That touch of mink” & COVID-19: Dutch outbreak hints mink may be host

May 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Fur farming to end in The Netherlands by 2024 WAGENINGEN, The Netherlands––The discovery that ranched mink can become infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus may lend momentum to the Dutch national plan to phase out mink farming entirely by 2024. Concern that mink themselves might become a COVID-19 reservoir may also dampen Chinese enthusiasm for rebuilding […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, China, Denmark, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fur & leather, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Science, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Arnon Shimshony, Carola Schouten, Doris Day, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Soren Alexandersen, Teresa Telecky

COVID-19: seldom has animal testing offered so little to so many

March 20, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Still no animal models, three months into global crisis             BEIJING,  WASHINGTON D.C.––A hint of the desperation of practitioners of traditional animal-based biomedical research to contribute something of relevance to the global fight against COVID-19 was posted late on March 18,  2019 by the online periodical Live Science. “When exposed to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Chimps & other primates, China, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Laboratories, Mice & rats, Science, Science Tagged With: Cat Lutz, Chien-Te Tseng, Danny Prater, David Grimm, James Gorman, Merritt Clifton, Nick Sas, Nicoletta Lanese, Stanley Perlman

COVID-19:  What can wildlife management teach us?

March 11, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

No,  it is not “shoot the victims”!             SEATTLE––Perhaps the most startling statistic pertaining to the global spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is the statistic almost nobody mentions:  the ratio of compensatory versus additive mortality. What’s that? It is not that as of March 10,  2020 there are still only about 140,000 COVID-19 cases of […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cats, China, Disease, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral cats, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Italy, Mediterranean, Population control, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: COVID-19, Merritt Clifton, ProMED-mail

Why COVID-19 is NOT the zoonotic illness most likely to kill you

March 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Panicked stress may be killing more people than the disease itself             SEATTLE,  ATLANTA,  HONG KONG––Amid escalating global panic over the worldwide rapid spread of the recently identified coronavirus COVID-19,  a person not familiar with ProMED–mail might expect the most panic-stricken person of all to be ProMED–mail deputy editor Marjorie P. Pollack,  M.D. ProMED-mail is […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, China, Disasters, Dogs & cats, Feature Home Bottom, Food & agriculture, Lab animals, Science, Science, Wildlife Tagged With: Francis Collins, Jeremy Samuel Faust, Marjorie Pollack, Merritt Clifton, Monir Tahir, Pe Su, Shirley McGreal, Steve Berger

China cloning advance to cut monkey use in research, say scientists

January 27, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Critics appear not to have read either the Chinese scientific journal reports or media release about them clear to the end SHANGHAI, China––Had the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai put the last three lines of a January 24,  2019 media release announcing the births of five cloned monkeys at […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, China, Feature Home Bottom, Lab animals, Legislation, Science, Science Tagged With: He Jiankui, Hung-Chun Chang, Merritt Clifton, Mu-ming Poo, Qiang Sun, Wang Xueqiao

Jack Woodall, 81, the James Bond of animal/human disease prevention

October 30, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Cofounder of ProMED-mail          LONDON,  U.K.––Jack Woodall,  81,  perhaps the most influential person in the animal welfare field whose name almost no one involved in animal welfare recognized,  whose work helped to save countless human and animal lives,  died on October 24,  2016 in London,  England,  where he was under treatment for pancreatic cancer. Cofounder […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, China, Culture & Animals, Disease, Dog health, Dogs, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Isles, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Pacific rim, Population control, Population control, Rabies, Science, Science, Southeast Asia, Street dogs, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Charles Calisher, Eskild Petersen, Jack Woodall, Larry Madoff, Martin Hugh-Jones, Mary Cranshaw, Stephen Morse

Two furors bring China draft standards for lab animals

March 26, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Lab animal standards are step toward Chinese national animal welfare act BEIJING,  China––A brief public comment period on draft animal welfare and ethics standards for Chinese laboratories closed on March 20,  2016. The draft standards were released soon after two furors erupted over the use of lab animals in China. Medical university dog use “In […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Chimps & other primates, China, Cultural, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Dogs & cats lab animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Lab animals, Legislation, Mice & rats, Other species, Regulation, Religion & philosophy, Research & testing, Science, Science, Science Tagged With: George Dvorsky, Peter Li

Ardith Eudey, 80, exposed Malaysian monkey massacres & lab traffic

January 4, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Co-founded International Primate Protection League Primatologist Ardith Eudey,  80,  cofounder with Shirley McGreal of the International Primate Protection League,  instrumental in recent years in exposing monkey massacres and alleged trafficking in Malaysia,  died in December 2015. The daughter of prominent California watercolorist and engraver Dora Higgins Eudey (1909-2006) and her husband Henry Eudey (1909-1989),  Ardith […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Chimps & other primates, China, Culture & Animals, Humane history, India, Indian subcontinent, Lab animals, Malaysia, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Politics, Religion & philosophy, Sanctuaries, Science, Science, Science, Southeast Asia, Thailand, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Ardith Eudey, Arun Rangsi, Dora Eudey, Merritt Clifton, Moraji Desai, Nanditha Krishna, Shirley McGreal

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