China is facing serious experimental monkey shortage during the COVID‐19 lockdown
Chaoyang Tian
Abstract
This report aims to analyze the experimental monkey shortage generated by the COVID-19 lockdown. The supply capability of the monkey breeding farms is insufficient to meet demand, and the sales prices have skyrocketed since 2018. The contradiction will be further aggravated with import prohibition although the countermeasures suggested.
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Economic shortageCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)China2019-20 coronavirus outbreakContradictionBusinessVirologyGeographyMedicineGovernment (linguistics)OutbreakPathologyEpistemologyArchaeologyLinguisticsDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)PhilosophyZoonotic diseases and public healthSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchCOVID-19 epidemiological studies