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The CDC is ending testing on monkeys. Here’s what we know.

For decades, animals have been used in scientific and medical research. Naturally, some supported research on animals, while others wanted nothing more than to set the animals free. For those in the ...
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The NIH is RFK’s Primate Testing Problem Child

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged to completely end cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded experiments on primates. It was the second such pledge he has made, first in August 2025, when, in direct ...
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Test monkeys escape after crash in Mississippi; one still on the loose

JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) – A truck hauling 21 monkeys to a testing facility in Florida overturned in Mississippi on Tuesday. According to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office, the accident occurred ...
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Monkeys on overturned truck were not infected with hepatitis C, herpes and COVID, university says

JASPER COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) – Several monkeys used for animal testing were shot and killed after a truck carrying them overturned in Mississippi on Tuesday afternoon. According to the Jasper ...