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MONTH: June 2007

NIH makes permanent chimp breeding freeze

 

WASHINGTON D.C.-- The U.S. National Institutes of Health on May 24, 2007 announced that for financial reasons, it will make permanent a moratorium in effect since 1995 on breeding chimpanzees kept by the National Center for Research Resources.

The center is responsible for about 500 of the 1,200 chimps who remain in U.S. laboratories.
Only nine U.S. labs still use chimps.

"NCRR's prudent decision is timely," said New England Anti-Vivisection Society president Theo Capaldo, "since not only U.S. but world sentiment is growing in support of the day when no chimpanzees will be used in lab research."

The NIH escalated chimp breeding in the early 1980s, anticipating that many chimps would be used in HIV-AIDS research.

However, chimpanzees proved to be extraordinarily resistant to the human forms of HIV-AIDS.