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Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

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The UW has been cited in the past for deficiencies in animal research, including allowing a monkey to starve in 2009. In 2008, it had to return $20,000 in federal research grant money after a finding that it had allowed unauthorized surgeries on primates. John Pippin, a Dallas cardiologist who helped write the complaint.

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