MADISON, Wis. – Critics of animal research on Monday released internal records detailing a study at the University of Wisconsin that led to an “unusual number” of deaths and illnesses of rhesus monkeys in 2001 and 2002.
The UW memos uncovered by the Primate Freedom Project show one of the monkeys died while an attendant went out to lunch during an experiment, and others were given drugs that had not been approved by a review committee.