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The Burmese python's impact in Florida is well documented but more invasive species, including a monkey called the crab-eating macaque, pose threats.

Hundreds of long-tailed macaques captured in the wild in Indonesia have been imported by the USA for the research and toxicity testing industry.

This week, U.S. healthcare workers began receiving the first doses of Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine — and we almost certainly have monkeys to thank for that. Monkeys and other nonhuman test subjects have been an extremely valuable research component in helping the medical community better understand COVID, which has so far killed 290,000 people in the U.S. and more than 19,000 in Florida. In two peer-reviewed studies published this spring in Science magazine, researchers who infected groups of rh...