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Why New COVID-19 Vaccines May Require A 'Monkey Reserve'


Why New COVID-19 Vaccines May Require A Monkey Reserve
02/23/21 AT 3:56 PM
As COVID-19 vaccine research continues, labs find themselves facing critical shortages of research animals due to slashed colony budgets and disrupted international trade. Virus variants could require new vaccines, and some labs are calling for emergency funding to try and catch up.
The pandemic presented a perfect storm to create a shortage: a massive spike in demand for specialized test monkeys collided with years of reduced budgets and trade problems with China, the leading exporter of the animals, The New York Times reports. The combined effect sent prices above $10,000 per monkey if they were even for sale. ....

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Future Vaccines Depend on Test Subjects in Short Supply: Monkeys


Future Vaccines Depend on Test Subjects in Short Supply: Monkeys
Veterinary techs distribute food every morning to more than 5,000 monkeys at the Tulane University National Primate Research Center outside New Orleans.Credit.
Feb. 23, 2021
Mark Lewis was desperate to find monkeys. Millions of human lives, all over the world, were at stake.
Mr. Lewis, the chief executive of Bioqual, was responsible for providing lab monkeys to pharmaceutical companies like Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, which needed the animals to develop their Covid-19 vaccines. But as the coronavirus swept across the United States last year, there were few of the specially bred monkeys to be found anywhere in the world. ....

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