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HUGE VICTORY!<\/strong> In a seismic win for animals and science, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that it will phase out cruel experiments on monkeys in its laboratories<\/em><\/strong>\u2014a long-overdue move that PETA has fought for relentlessly. PETA is thanking the administration<\/strong> for taking this decisive, visionary step and acknowledging what mountains of evidence have made clear: Experiments on monkeys aren\u2019t delivering for humans<\/strong>, nowhere more obvious than the four-decade failure<\/a> to produce a marketable HIV vaccine<\/strong>. Today, we\u2019re celebrating a historic turning point\u2014one that protects public health, respects endangered species, and helps propel research into a modern, animal-free future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Major Blow to the Dangerous, Deadly Monkey Experimentation Industry<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For years, U.S. laboratories have been funneling in endangered\u2014and often infected\u2014macaques through a reckless, disease-ridden pipeline. The CDC\u2019s own data paints a disturbing picture: monkeys arriving infected with tuberculosis, melioidosis, and other dangerous pathogens; testing protocols rife with red flags; and a supply chain riddled with escapes, disease lapses, and repeated regulatory failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PETA has exposed<\/a> these dangers at every turn\u2014including in August 2025, when we held a press conference outside of the Department of Health and Human Services and released a report revealing the true and hidden scope of the tuberculosis threat. The report highlighted a CDC study confirming that from 2021 to 2024, 69 tuberculosis cases were detected while monkeys were in quarantine and another 16 after they were shipped off to laboratories.<\/strong> Today\u2019s announcement proves that the system is finally confronting the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experiments on monkeys don\u2019t just fail science and put the public at risk\u2014they\u2019re unimaginably cruel. In their natural habitats, macaques form lifelong bonds, nurture their young, and roam miles each day through lush, diverse forests. In laboratories, their lives are a waking nightmare. In addition to experimenters tormenting and killing them in tests, monkeys in laboratories have starved, choked to death on their own vomit, been mauled by other stressed monkeys, and died in other horrific ways. There is no justification for the suffering of these social, emotional animals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Need Your Help to Secure More Wins Like This<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While we celebrate this historic victory, our work isn\u2019t over. PETA is calling on the administration to build on this incredible breakthrough: shut down the National Primate Research Centers, end the monkey-import pipeline that repeatedly undermines biosecurity and conservation efforts, and move every federal agency toward modern, human-relevant science. Now, every other federally funded primate facility must be next\u2014and your support can help make that happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NIH, Shut Down the National Primate Research Centers<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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U.S. Citizens: Urge Your Lawmakers To Do the Same<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Stop Monkey Imports<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PETA has warned the CDC that experiments on monkeys have done nothing to help humans\u2014in fact, they\u2019ve endangered the public for decades. 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