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US invests millions to breed more test monkeys in wake of COVID-19: report
https://nypost.com ^ | July 19, 2021 | 10:52am | By Julia Musto, Fox News

Posted on 07/19/2021 10:22:15 AM PDT by Red Badger

The US government is reportedly investing millions of dollars to breed more monkeys in the name of biomedical research after a shortage of the animals worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the scientific journal Nature, demand for the non-human primates in the US has skyrocketed as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued grants to study HIV/AIDS and the coronavirus necessitated the animals’ use in vaccine testing last year.

The publication reported Thursday that the NIH had invested around $29 million over the past two years in primate housing and care in addition to other “infrastructure improvements” at the seven US National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) and that the agency is expected to spend another $7.5 million by October.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) FY2022 Budget in Brief includes an additional $30 million to support a 27 percent increase in funding of non-human primate resource infrastructure at the NPRCs and Caribbean Primate Research Center (CPRC).

“These resources will address space and infrastructure capability needs such as animal purchase and transport along with investments to expand housing and support space,” the agency wrote in its request.

According to Nature’s report, around $8 million of recent funding for the NPRCs came from the 2020 CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act.

The NPRCs have more than 22,000 animals including rodents like rats, mice and voles.

Rhesus macaques are the non-human primates most commonly used in NPRC research programs and the centers’ website explains this is due to similar “biological links” between the animals and humans.

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1 posted on 07/19/2021 10:22:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Why?

They already have 5 Texas Democrats who prove the vaccine doesn't work.

2 posted on 07/19/2021 10:23:41 AM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: Red Badger

If you’ve taken the Covid vacc
Get on down and do the Monkey Dance!


3 posted on 07/19/2021 10:25:04 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Red Badger
XXXMillion American guinea pigs isn't enough?
4 posted on 07/19/2021 10:26:54 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Red Badger

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5 posted on 07/19/2021 10:27:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

How does the breeding work? A nice dinner, perhaps a movie and .......... ?


6 posted on 07/19/2021 10:28:34 AM PDT by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember metal toys in Cracker-Jacks.)
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To: Red Badger

We kill babies and breed monkeys??


7 posted on 07/19/2021 10:30:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger
They are already doing it. It is called welfare.
8 posted on 07/19/2021 10:30:51 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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To: Red Badger

Uh, we have a congress.


9 posted on 07/19/2021 10:30:59 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Red Badger
1. Find the address where these monkeys are kept.

2. Search the voter registration rolls to see how many registered voters live there.

3. Search the election results to see how many voted in November.

4. Release the Krakken!

10 posted on 07/19/2021 10:32:09 AM PDT by Bernard (The very best scientific articles always contain this phrase: “My personal intuition has been…”)
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To: llevrok

Bananas Foster and you can guess what happens next.


11 posted on 07/19/2021 10:32:21 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

Is this a precursor to a Planet of the Apes type scenario? COVID, which we cannot contain in the lab, leads to breeding more monkeys, which we cannot contain in the lab ... and so it begins.


12 posted on 07/19/2021 10:36:20 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: Sacajaweau

The world is upside down........................


13 posted on 07/19/2021 10:37:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Savage Rider

no, a 28 days later scenario.

a great movie if you have not seen it


14 posted on 07/19/2021 10:38:40 AM PDT by algore
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To: Red Badger

Use congress to test Fauci & Co.’s Gene Jabs.


15 posted on 07/19/2021 10:39:21 AM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Red Badger

More? Aren’t there enough democrats already?


16 posted on 07/19/2021 10:39:43 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Red Badger

Why put the poor monkeys through that when we have plenty of democrats and criminals...but I repeat myself.


17 posted on 07/19/2021 10:41:31 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Red Badger

Cant the monkeys make more monkeys for free ???


18 posted on 07/19/2021 10:41:32 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Red Badger
Test monkeys are hard to find these days...


19 posted on 07/19/2021 10:42:20 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Tennessee Nana

You get what you pay for........................


20 posted on 07/19/2021 10:43:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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