Shortage of monkeys slows testing of coronavirus vaccine

Rhesus macaque monkey

In America there is a shortage of rhesus macaque monkeys for animal testing purposes. There was a shortage years before the coronavirus pandemic but now US research centres are saying that there are not enough to go around and there is huge pressure on developing …

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Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT), an animal testing facility, treated animals cruelly

Dog at Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT)

NEWS AND OPINION: I can say with confidence and without any possibility of defamation that an animal testing laboratory in or near Hamburg, Germany called Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology (LPT) was found to be treating animals barbarically and they were kept in appalling conditions. …

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