Germ warfare fears over African monkeys takento Iran

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4276460.ece 'Germ warfare' fear over African monkeys taken to Iran 06 Jul 2008 Hundredsof endangered monkeys are being taken from the African bush and sent to a“secretive” laboratory in Iran for scientific experiments. An undercoverinquiry by The Sunday Times has revealed that wild monkeys, which are bannedfrom experiments in Britain, are being freely supplied in large numbers tolaboratories in other parts of the world [such as the US and the UK].Monkeys are commonly used to test vaccines for 'biological weapon' diseasessuch as anthrax and plague. Experimenting on monkeys caught in the wild waseffectively banned in Britain in 1997. Only monkeys bred in captivity arenow used for research -- America, Russia, China and Iran are among thecountries still using wild monkeys. [Oh, so torturing animals in the US, UK,Russia and China is OK - because the animals are wild instead of bred for alab?] Ingrid --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~To to this group, send email to: MedicalConspiracies- (AT) googl (DOT) com