Monkeys who died of SARS in China given a memorial

[JohnKleeb]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1517&e=19&u=/afp/health_china_sars
:cry: just beautiful, those poor beloved monkeys.

BEIJING (AFP) - Thirty-eight Chinese rhesus monkeys that died in SARS (news - web sites) research have had a monument erected in their honor, state media said.


AFP/File Photo



The monument, which is in granite and weighs 16 tonnes, has been set up at the lab animals center of Wuhan University in central Hubei province, Xinhua news agency reported.


"For lab animals that have died for the health of humans," the monument reads, while on the back the inscription goes, "In special memory of the 38 rhesus monkeys that devoted their lives to SARS research."


The text was written by Professor Sun Lihua, a researcher who last year tried to work out a vaccine to fight Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), a disease that killed nearly 800 people worldwide last year.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Nope. Not going to go there...nope, just can't do it.

:hi:

[JohnKleeb]

2. go to china that is?

Poor monkeys, they're heroes, and Bush probably asked the Morrocan government to cut their bananas after they blew up the landmines.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. I thought Morocco decided not to "cough up the monkeys"?

:hi:

[JohnKleeb]

6. they did? oh thank heavens

[Parche]

3. monkeys

SHOCK THE MONKEYS

[montanacowboy]

5. You'll never see something like this

ever happening in the US - the animals in thousands of labs that are tortured to death in the name of research is enough to turn your stomach - everything is expendable in this country - the earth, the water, the air, our resources and our precious animal populations.