Word: rhesuses
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India's Prime Minister Morarji Desai, 81, is such a devout Hindu that he not only refuses to eat meat but he refuses to be vaccinated against smallpox because cattle were used to make the vaccine. Now Desai has decided to ban the export of rhesus monkeys as of April 1. India is the world's largest exporter of the animals (20,000 last year), and the U.S. is the largest importer (more than 12,000). If Desai's ban takes effect on schedule -and one aide says the Prime Minister's "mind is closed...
...Health Service must sign a statement declaring: "I hereby certify that the monkeys now being purchased will be used only for medical research or he production of anti-poliomyelitis vaccine ... and that regular inspections shall be made to assure humane treatment of these monkeys." The agreement also declared that rhesus monkeys "will not be used in atomic blast experiments or for pace research...
Although U.S. officials deny any violation of that agreement, the Defense Nuclear Agency reports that in five years ending last June, AFRRI used 1,379 primates-undoubtedly nearly all of them rhesus monkeys-in its tests. One typical set of tests was designed to simulate the effects of the neutron bomb, which kills not by blast or burning but by radiation. In order to determine monkeys' work capacity when healthy, they were conditioned by means of electric shocks to run on a treadmill for six hours. Then they were subjected to huge doses of radiation -from...
...Rhesus is of particular importance in the testing of Polio vaccine for use in humans. These tests are required by the Food and Drug Administration, and no other species is adequate, Hunt said...
...over a lifetime. Said Duke University Biochemist Henry Kamin: "The dosages are so large that the result means nothing." In Albany, N.Y., Dr. Frederick Coulston revealed that his tests on monkeys-much closer to humans than are rats-revealed no harmful effects. Said he: "We gave saccharin to rhesus monkeys over 6½ years-relatively high doses six days a week." After examining the animals, he said, "we found nothing. They are perfectly normal...