The United States banned chimpanzees for experiments

The US government has just banned the use of chimpanzees to conduct scientific research experiments.

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According to the New York Times, the US National Institutes of Health will not fund research using chimpanzees as experiments. The newspaper quoted the director of Francis Collins Institute, citing the reason for the ban: 'Chimp in the biological world is a close relative of humanity, which needs special treatment'.

Scientists from the Council of Experts, independent of the National Institutes of Health, also concluded that most experiments using chimpanzees are not necessary.

Chimpanzees are closely related species.

Jeffrey Kahn, Chairman of the Professional Council, Professor of Bioethics and Social Policy John Hopkins University said: 'We try to identify strict standards for using chimpanzees in biomedical studies. learning and animal psychology (behavioral research, behavior .) '.

However, the researchers themselves are using chimpanzees in their experiments to confess that they themselves feel happy that they are the research that they have just done, and are anxious, now have been ' suspended ' . The director of one of the 471 chimpanzee science centers agrees with this and added that scientists have long been reluctant to use the primates in experiments. On the other hand, it is also very expensive experiments.

Currently, only 2 countries allow the use of chimpanzees in the study are the US and Gabon. In the past 10 years, in the US there are up to 100 topics that use chimpanzees for experiments and are known in state laboratories and private pharmaceutical firms are mobilizing 1,000 chimpanzees in scientific research. Meanwhile, European countries have issued a ban since last year.

It should be added that this command also has an exception. The National Institute of Medicine still allows the two branches to use chimpanzees for force majeure reasons. It is specialized in hepatitis C vaccine research and immunological research. But animal conservationists have proposed that instead of capturing those 'very unfortunate' chimpanzees in the barn, they should be kept in protected areas.

Last October, the United States also announced to stop all experiments on nerve paralysis on monkeys.