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Lab chimp retirement upstages steep rise in monkey use

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100 times more monkeys enter U.S. labs than chimps are leaving CHARLESTON,  South Carolina;  WASHINGTON D.C.––“One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show,”   rhythm-and-blues composer Stick McGhee wrote in 1950.  Big Maybelle made the message famous five years later. The National Institutes of Health decision to retire the last 50 chimpanzees held in the U.S. for biomedical research,  however, […]

Maternal deprivation experiments with baby monkeys confirmed cancelled at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Self-mutilation reported by triumphant opponent of experiments MADISON,  Wisconsin––“I don’t recall ever having patted myself on the back as vigorously.  My shoulder hurts from doing so,”  former Alliance for Animals executive director Rick Bogle posted to Facebook on October 8,  2015,  after receiving confirmation from the National Institutes of Health that maternal deprivation experiments with […]

Primate research labs near the ends of their ropes

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Use of all species but macaques appears to be declining          NORMAN,  Oklahoma––The University of Oklahoma’s Health Sciences Center baboon research and breeding program is to end by 2019,  university president David Boren announced on September 8,  2015. The University of Oklahoma thereby became the most recent of a growing number of U.S. academic institutions […]

Opening doors, by Gary Ferguson

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Carole Noon & Her Dream to Save the Chimps Save the Chimps (P.O. Box 12220,  Ft. Pierce, FL 34979),  2014.  176 pages.  250 photos;  hardcover.  $24.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Opening Doors:  Carole Noon & Her Dream to Save the Chimps is the second publishing venture undertaken by the Save The Chimps sanctuary in less than a […]

Pigs investigated as possible Ebola vectors

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Pigs can get Ebola,  but do they spread it? KAMPALA,  Uganda;  NAIROBI,  Kenya––Domestic pigs may already be among the vectors transmitting deadly Ebola viruses to humans,  though no one knows for sure yet,  warns a five-member International Livestock Research Institute team in a soon-to-be-published edition of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. The […]

Factory-farming monkeys is A-OK with Hendry County brass

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Zoning officials zoning? LaBELLE, Florida––Monkey-farming is animal agriculture within the meaning of the zoning ordinance in Hendry County,  Florida,  county officials announced on August 18,  2015. Hendry County residents opposed to the location and practices of Primate Products and two other nearby laboratory monkey breeding facilities had hoped that they could be closed for alleged […]

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston failed to euthanize monkeys dying from Ebola-Marburg

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Project leader Thomas W. Geisberg was 2014 TIME Person-of-theYear          GALVESTON,  Texas––A recent investigation of a disease in the Ebola family done at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston involved alleged “critical,  major,  and minor” violations of animal welfare protocols,  according to an audit by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases. […]

Abandoning Vilab II chimps in Liberia, New York Blood Center did it before in Ivory Coast, SAEN charges

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Founding scientists had committed to lifelong care          NEW YORK CITY,  MONROVIA,  CINCINNATI–– “The New York Blood Center––already embroiled in charges it has abandoned 66 former research chimps to starve to death in Liberia––apparently discarded another largely unknown group of 20 chimps in Ivory Coast in 1983,  on an island adjacent to Azagny National Park,”   […]

N.Y. judge starts habeas corpus procedure for two lab chimps

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“Show cause” order issued on behalf of Hercules & Leo NEW YORK, N.Y.–– Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe late on April 20, 2015 ordered Stony Brook University to show cause why two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, should not be released under a writ of habeas corpus from confinement for biomedical research. “Under the law […]

Forced abortions raise alarm over Florida lab monkey breeders

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“Not In My Back Yard” dispute becomes national debate LaBELLE, Florida––A long-running “Not In My Back Yard” dispute over the location of a breeding facility in Hendry County, Florida that supplies monkeys to laboratories has exploded into a nationally visible debate over how monkeys are used in labs. Which is what many of the opponents […]