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AUGUST 19, 2010

Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. The contract expires next year and Richardson opposes a plan by the agency to transfer the chimps from the Alamogordo Primate Facility, where they are no longer used for medical testing.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

The Governor of New Mexico has already met with the National Institutes of Health to try and stop this transfer with no apparent success. Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health PETA new mexico. Some of the animals are 60 years old and veterans of the US space program.

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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.".

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

These aging chimps deserve to retire permanently and NOT be subjected to more medical research. Tags: chimpanzees primates National Institutes of Health medical research new mexico. Here's hoping this poignant story will stir more public outrage and pressure on the NIH.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Here's the latest I could find.still no real news. Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.

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DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Alamagordo chimps will be allowed to remain in New Mexico for about two years while the NIH studies the issue of their transference. AP) - Some 186 chimpanzees will remain at a federal facility in New Mexico for now. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.

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