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Chimpanzees in Research Strategies for Their Ethical Care, Management, and Use (1997) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
Pages 7-12

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... In 1986, the National Institutes of Health (NTH) launched a breeding and research program at five institutions for several basic reasons: a perceived need for these animals for AIDS research, concerns about the potential for sustaining future generations of breeding chimpanzees, and concerns about the ability to provide sufficient animals to meet other national needs.
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... This special status of chimpanzees is supported by the following considerations of medical science, genetics, population biology, cost, and perception. The similarities between chimpanzees and humans that make them desirable surrogates for studying diseases and conditions of humans constitute the reason for our recommendation for their continued use in scientific research.
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... · Prepare ethically and scientifically balanced cost-effective recommendations for a strategy for long-term care of chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research. · Provide recommendations that strive to ensure a population adequate for research needs to enhance public health while promoting chimpanzee conservation and well-being.
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... The principles that the committee developed to guide its recommendations are as follows: An adequate population must be maintained because chimpanzees constitute an important resource that can be used to protect the national health against emerging infectious diseases and a useful mode! for many kinds of biomedical and behavioral research, including research to develop vaccines and therapies for major human diseases.
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... Chapter 5, "Centralization of Research Chimpanzee Management and Development of a National Chimpanzee Resource," describes the rationaTe and a mechanism for centralizing all aspects of managing the chimpanzee population with the goal of ensuring its cost-effective maintenance and use. Ways to implement the recommendations, provide financial support, and establish continued oversight of all facets of the chimpanzee resource are discussed in the context of federally funded colonies and privately owned (nongovernment)
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Key Terms

  • chimpanzee population
  • moral responsibility
  • biomedical institutions
  • endangered species
  • behavioral research

  • animal welfare
  • chimpanzees constitute
  • special status
  • laboratory animals
  • wild fauna

  • healthy population
  • including relevant
  • studies using
  • disease threats
  • emerging disease

  • continued oversight
  • studies related
  • desirable surrogates
  • identify types
  • national chimpanzee

  • establish continued
  • census maintained
  • human diseases
  • chimpanzee resource
  • sustain breeding

  • privately owned
  • demand future
  • initial breeding
  • captive population
  • six interrelated


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