Use of “brothers of man” to be banned

The European Commission plans to ban the use of great ape species in scientific research, according to the Economist. The legislation drafted proposes to allow testing on our closest relatives only under dire circumstances.

The proposed legislation would allow potential vaccines for pandemic flu to be tested on great apes. Their use would also be permitted if some deadly disease emerged which affected, say, chimpanzees only and which threatened the future survival of the species.

Just interesting.