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Critter News
AUGUST 26, 2010
Since 2001, chimpanzees have been housed at APF, where they cannot be used for research. However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".
Critter News
DECEMBER 31, 2010
This gives animal rights activists some time to prepare further defense of the animals. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine. Animal welfare activists protested the transfer. Good way to end 2010. Here's the story as reported in NewsWest. ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP)
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