OHSU Primate Center Workers to Lose Access to Nearby Treatment for Exposure to Monkey Diseases Anthony Effinger

Employees depended on Providence’s St. Vincent Medical Center because it was close by, and primate bites and scratches require immediate attention.

OHSU gets tens of millions of taxpayer dollars every year to run its primate center, but can't provide basic treatment for it's staff? Bites and scratches are frightening common when thousands of monkeys are crammed into cages. Dangerous, cruel, and ineffective. It needs to be shut down.

Part two for @mongabay.bsky.social - we look at how monkey smugglers in #Thailand are likely supplying long-tailed macaque breeding farms in #Laos.

Despite a trade ban from CITES preventing Laos from exporting monkeys, breeding facilities there are expanding rapidly and the numbers don't add up.

In 2023, the CDC reported a highly infection tuberculosis strain that has never been seen in animals in the U.S. was found in a shipment of 540 long-tailed macaques.

And if you don't care about monkeys, corruption, or the environmental consequences of decimating a keystone species, consider the potential risks to public health and so-called 'science' of importing and experimenting on monkeys with unknown health histories.

US companies are driving these monkeys to extinction. “For the past two months, I didn’t see monkeys, they are rare now” - poacher in Cambodia.

Imagine the terror of watching the surrounding trees being chopped down, leaving you nowhere to go but into the nets of poachers. Then they shove you into a sack and tie you up until the middlemen come for you.

A devastating, detailed report exposing widespread monkey smuggling for U.S. buyers like Charles River Labs. “The real question isn’t just how Charles River has gotten away with this, but why the U.S. government continues to let them.” - Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel

Thank you @govtinakotek.bsky.social !

This kind of news makes me never want to move back to Utah. Proud to see my OR Governor @govtinakotek.bsky.social taking a stand against the OHSU primate center, which imprisons 5000 primates and subjects them to needless and cruel experiments with our tax dollars. Shut it down

You Pay for This: The Ugly Reality of Experiments at Oregon’s Primate Center | PETA PETA shows you EXACTLY what your tax money funds at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Spoiler alert: It’s not science.

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Oregon residents — there's also an important action for you to take 👇 peta.vg/418b

Can we stop doing animal ag’s work for them yet?

PETA suit asserts First Amendment right to listen to monkeys The animal rights group is suing the National Institute of Mental Health, saying it has a right to hear and see rhesus macaque monkeys used in experiments.

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Imagine growing old in this hell hole. Never being able to play, feel the warmth of the sun, or a comfortable bed to rest. Please take action, let’s shut it down.

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Thank you for not giving up. 💚

It’s a Gamble U.S. Officials Won’t Take—but Canada Continues to Allow Monkey Imports More monkeys will be killed in experiments after the notorious Charles River Laboratories was found to be up to no good again. Tell Canadian officials to stop letting it get away with this!

While the U.S. has halted monkey imports from Cambodia since early 2023, Charles River Laboratories just shifted to Canada, importing more than 6,800 endangered monkeys from Cambodia since with more LITERALLY on the way aboard SkyTaxi right now. Take action: peta.org/canadalabs

The Dirty Business of Monkey Laundering | Bloomberg Investigates YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

This must-see new investigation exposes the corrupt and illegal capture of monkeys from their forest homes to fill U.S. laboratories. Absolutely devastating.

Ottawa urged to act on import of Cambodian monkeys for labs, as questions linger about whether some could be caught in wild Statistics Canada says 6,769 monkeys were imported to Canada from Cambodia between January, 2023, when the U.S. authorities stopped issuing permits, and September

Ottawa urged to act on import of Cambodian monkeys for labs, as questions linger about whether some could be caught in wild: Statistics Canada says 6,769 monkeys were imported to Canada from Cambodia between January, 2023, when the U.S. authorities stopped issuing permits, and September