After abiding burden from beastly rights groups and a affiliate of Congress, the Army has agreed to stop injecting monkeys with aerial doses of a nerve-blocking biologic meant to simulate a assumption gas attack.The practice, agitated out at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County, Md., is advised to alternation Army medical cadre to acknowledge to actinic attacks on troops.Last month, Aberdeen accustomed a addition of 20 macho African blooming monkeys from a Florida company, Worldwide Primates, for the tests, which the Army has been accustomed out back at atomic 2005. Army abstracts appearance the monkeys were to be anaesthetized, injected with a nerve-blocking agent, physostigmine, and empiric by Army medical cadre afore accepting an antidote.Worldwide Primates acquired the monkeys from the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, according to Army documents.Army agent Michael Elliott accepted Thursday that the Army Medical Research Institute of Actinic Defense at Aberdeen will “phase out” the assumption tests on the primates, additionally accepted as vervet monkeys, although he did not accommodate a timeline.
