Ban on chimp tests may kill wild apes

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3037, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An animal welfare victory in the US may prove to be a conservation catastrophe in Africa. Tests of a promising oral Ebola vaccine that could protect wild apes may be abandoned this month when a ban on the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research comes into fame. An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has swept across west Africa over the past 17 months, killing more than 11,000 people