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MONTH: January/February 2007
CDC spends $3 million on animal care upgrade
ATLANTA--"The U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has spent $3 million on animal
care improvements since last year," Associated Press medical writer
Mike Stobbe reported on November 16, 2006, after the Association for Assessment
and Accreditation of Laboratory Care International "threatened to
revoke its approval for the way the CDC treats lab animals."
Among other violations of AALAC standards,
Stobbe wrote, "Faulty sipper tubes left some monkeys with no access
to water, leading to the dehydration death of an owl monkey and a rhesus
monkey in 2004. A rhesus monkey was mistakenly killed in 2005 because
of record-keeping and communications problems. Three rhesus monkeys were
given a deadly combination of anesthetic and analgesic medications. The
doses were consistent with published guidelines, but killed the monkeys,
leading to the CDC adopting new standards.
"The AAALAC report prompted the CDC to transfer oversight of its lab animal care to director Julie Gerberding's office and add nearly 20 animal care staffers," Stobbe continued. "The agency has about 6,000 rodents and several hundred other animals, including bats, rabbits, and monkeys, at three Atlanta campuses."