Animal Protection of New Mexico and the Humane Society of the United States filed a federal lawsuit Jan. 14 against the National Institutes of Health about a group of chimpanzees residing on Holloman Air Force Base.
The suit alleges the National Institutes of Health violated federal law when 44 chimpanzees remained at the Alamogordo Primate Facility on the base in 2019 following a 2015 National Institutes of Health decision to end biomedical research on chimpanzees.
While at the facility, the chimps were used for biomedical research.
They were exposed to various microorganisms, per the NIH website, such as hepitus C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and used in stem cell research.