Research monkeys died from overheating in Nevada lab

Thirty-two research monkeys quarantined at a lab in Nevada were accidentally killed in May due to overheating, the Associated Press reports.

Officials for the Massachusetts-based Charles River Laboratories confirmed today, for the first time, the May 28 incident at its lab in Sparks.

The company said the death of the 32 long-tailed macaques in a single room of its quarantine facility was caused by human error in the operation of the room's climate control. No other primates at the facility were injured, the statement said.

The company told the Associated Press that it self-reported the incident immediately to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The monkeys were to be used for pharmaceutical research, the statement said.

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Comments

[STOPUSAGiveaway]

Every religious group has beliefs that what we do in life good or bad comes back on us--so for those who "accidentally" killed trapped monkeys then tortured them after confining them when they were on this planet first--may you be blessed with the same experience one hundred fold.
Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You

[Brien Comerford]

The negilgent and malevolent reprobates responsible for the horrible deaths of these innocent primates should be placed in solitary confinement for ten years. Or they could be used for vivisection experiments on "moral morons".

[Enforcer1]

This is completely and utterly inexcusable.

We humans are, without a doubt, the most evil species on the planet.

Stop testing on animals and start experimenting on criminals. If this were inacted immediately, you'd see the crime rate drop dramatically in this country. No rapist or child molester, or white collar criminal, wants to be strapped to a chair and have electrodes implanted into his skull, or have his organs harvested to be placed into some stupid idiot who drank, or drugged himself nealy to death. Our diseases and maladies are frequently of our own making. Why torture another creature for the so-called benefit to mankind?

I hope every researcher responsible for these innocent creatures' deaths receives just kharma.