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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mortality rates of the center reflect the importance the center places on caring for the animal. According to Dr. Prabhat Sehgal, director of veterinary care at the hospital, there was "no mortality rate" among the macaques, although some marmosets had died at the lab. Says Hunt of the center's researchers, "An investigator wants his animal to be healthy and he wants his animal to live...
...Hunt is quick to defend the animal research as humane as well, carefully controlled, and sparingly used at the center. He says many researchers now use tissue cultures, DNA studies, and other "alternative" methods rather than live monkeys in studies to study the effects of disease. In the 1960s, he says, it was far more common to infect a group of animals with a deadly disease to see how it progressed. "90 percent of our research really does use alternative methods," Hunt says...
...center is still very concerned about its image and would not allow a photographer to take pictures of animals in wire cages. "If you publish it, it looks like somebody is behind bars," Sehgal says. "Pictures are funny--they let people see whatever they want," says Hunt...
...sometimes people see what Hunt doesn't want them to. Researcher John McArdle of the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS), recalls that when he visited the center several years ago, the monkeys were kept alone in rows of single cages. He said that while the practice of housing the monkeys in groups is a definite improvement over the old single cages, it is not enough...
...Hunt says that he is not afraid of having the center reviewed, but adds that researchers want to be judged by "an established review committee" rather than laymen. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of the Interior, and the state of Massachusetts all review the New England Primate Center at different times, under different codes. One such review, an announced visit by 19 scientists representing NIH, was conducted September...