Monkey Massacre in Mauritius

22/08/2026

22/08/2026

The future of science is animal-free. 🐰🧪

22/08/2026

Shares in AstraZeneca and Ionis Pharmaceuticals slid on Thursday after the companies announced that a heart-disease drug they had been developing together failed a late-stage trial. Swedish-British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced in a statement on Thursday that the Wainua medicine, a gene silencer to be administered once a month via syringe, “did not provide a statistically significant benefit” in deaths related to cardiovascular health.

Passed in animal tests.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/major-drugmaker-loses-27-billion-in-market-value-after-failed-trial-b891fc61

22/08/2026

More than 550 physicians are calling on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to phase out primate experimentation in favor of modern, human-based research methods that better predict human health outcomes.

https://www.pcrm.org/news/news-releases/hundreds-physicians-call-rfk-jr-end-primate-experiments-and-accelerate-human

22/08/2026

22/08/2026

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially instructed its scientists to phase out and end all research involving monkeys by the end of the year. This monumental policy change impacts approximately 200 rhesus and pig-tailed macaques housed at the agency's Atlanta headquarters, which were previously used in laboratory studies for HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases. Reportedly driven by administrative priorities to reduce animal testing and transition toward modern, human-relevant research methods, the decision was widely celebrated by animal rights organizations as a historic, long-overdue victory for animal welfare.