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In the early 1940s the war in the Far East, along with a shortage of cargo ships, threatened America's supply of rhesus macaque monkeys, commonly used in medical research. Rhesus monkeys were susceptible to human diseases such as polio, making them invaluable in vaccine research and drug development. Normally, some fifteen thousand monkeys were shipped to the United States from the Far East every year. To meet the threatened shortage, breeding colonies were begun in Cayo Santiago off the coast of Puerto Rico. To get monkeys for Cayo Santiago, Dr. C. R. Carpenter of the School of Tropical Medicine in San Juan went to India. He found that the rhesus monkeys in the Lucknow district were considered by many to be pests, but many of the Hindu and Buddhist religions considered them "quasi-sacred." It was not until Carpenter told religious authorities the monkeys were...
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