U.S. National Institutes of Health to stop using chimpanzees for research altogether

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By <a class="author-link"…Nov 23, 2015, 8:40 pm119 pts
The chimpanzee research program at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is over. The NIH significantly curtailed the program in 2013, retiring more than 300 chimpanzees but keeping a reserve of 50 for use in certain circumstances, such as a public health emergency. Now, those 50 chimps are being sent to…

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