Many of you may not be aware that several days ago a truck carrying 100 monkeys to a CDC lab was involved in an accident and some of the monkeys escaped. In this video I offer a few thoughts – will a bit of humor – into a situation that sounds like it came straight out of a Dustin Hoffman movie.
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Rourke
Monkey research is a very cruel and serious issue. You are right JR they usually are used for very serious diseases-like Ebola and this group may have been for covid type research.
May the monkey have a better life for however long it can survive .-and may people leave that monkey to be so they do not get infected with heaven knows what. Arlene
remember that we can no longer import the African Greens they use for viral and other testing. The movies use capuchins and other cuter monkeys .. more photogenic I suppose and more easily controlled. If you remember back in the black and white days when Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller – version) .. there was a repetitive scene where monkey’s .. zillions of them were running hell bent for leather through the jungle. That was filmed in FL where vast numbers of caged monkey’s were released as the cages were electrified. No really… We have had troops of monkey now endemic to the US since then. I was pestered by the curious little buggers more than once in FL.
At any rate those troops were captured from and bred in captivity ever since the import restrictions began from Africa to the US .. (other countries as well – Philippines etc.. )
Laboratories routinely ship uninfected monkeys from breeding enclaves to other facilities. That is SOP. What is not ok is shipping infected specimens without the proper controls, as appears happened in this case. They get to chase down whether the sick woman was sick from a monkey or something else. Patient Zero .. CDC vs USAMRID as in the movie. Also SOP. The do this for Hanta Viruses as well as others in the south east US across and within our borders regularly. They flare and burn out due to the type virus, exposure, weather, etc etc … Is this a big deal .. No probably not. What makes it a bigger deal in our minds I think is the fact that we have discovered we cannot “trust” what is said about anything by our officials or the media. A well founded cynicism they reinforce every day.
While I don’t put much stock in the accuracy of a movie.. the mechanics are similar. Just add mountains of Red Tape, CYA and FUBAR Process in both gov and military… What could go wrong?
GG58
Arlene an gg58, both are correct. After seeing reports that the results from dog and monkey experiments are not even used any more why are we torturing these animals, money grants, savage amusement or both?
The majority are used by MD Anderson in Huston or Similar. Cosmetics is one thing.. but they are still very actively used for cancer research