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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

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In December, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a warning letter to the primate center for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates treatment of many commercial animals from pet kittens to laboratory guinea pigs. And the center added training and banned one researcher from animal contact in response.

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Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

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I had never heard of the use of ferrets in medical research though. Dennis Mayock, a professor of pediatrics and medical director of the UW's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. says only about 13 percent of the pediatric-residency programs in the United States use animals for such training. News to me.

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