U.S. Panel Calls for Limits on Medical Use of Chimpanzees
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Most of the chimpanzees supported by the U.S. government for medical research should be retired because their use provides little benefit for biomedical discoveries, a panel recommended.
The government should retire 93 percent of the almost 700 chimpanzees it houses or supports, transferring them to a federal sanctuary, and maintain a population of 50 for future research, a National Institutes of health task force said in a report.