Good news! When will other animal experiments end? Will other national health research organisations follow?
How many animals have we sacrificed worldwide for medicine in the past 75 years or so? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?
"Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been told to phase out all of their monkey research, Science has learned. The directive ... will end studies on approximately 200 macaques. The fate of the animals—largely used in work on HIV prevention—is unclear; some may be transferred to primate sanctuaries, others may be euthanized.
Apart from the retirement of research chimpanzees initiated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a decade ago, the move would mark the first time a U.S. agency has ended its in-house nonhuman primate program. ..."
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