The US government is reportedly investing millions of dollars to breed more COVID test monkeys in the name of biomedical research after a shortage of the animals worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the scientific journal Nature, demand for the non-human primates in the US has skyrocketed as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued grants to study HIV/AIDS and the coronavirus necessitated the animals’ use in vaccine testing last year....
