The animal rights organization raises possibility of violations of federal hazardous materials regulations not limited to the Danville area accident.
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“It appears that agents in the primate research industry may have violated federal regulations for years and knowingly exposed U.S. citizens to dangerous infectious agents,” Lisa Jones-Engel, PETA’s senior science adviser of primate experimentation, wrote.These primates could be carrying tuberculosis, West Nile virus, malaria, Chagas disease, salmonella, herpes B and other infectious agents that are transmissible to humans, PETA points out.
The surviving 97 cynomolgus macaques appear to be in good condition, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.of the monkeys before, during and after the accident for possible violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act and animal welfare regulations. “The issues are much larger than this single incident,” Jones-Engel wrote Buttigieg. “The crash in Pennsylvania made international headlines; however, this shipment of 100 long-tailed macaques represented less than 0.02 percent of the primates imported into the U.S. and trucked across our nation’s roads in 2019-2020. The most recent CDC data available to us show that in fiscal year 2019 and 2020, there were 277 international shipments containing 60,546 primates arriving into the US.
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