Chimpanzee Island

Most laboratories often use animals to test their products or create vaccines, but then they end up dying or catching diseases as a result of this brutal abuse. This is what happened with a group of 60 chimpanzees that were released into a jungle called "Monkey Island", located in Liberia, Africa. But it is very dangerous to approach them: they are infected with contagious and very powerful viruses.   

Few of the island's locals approach the animals to deliver their food to them, and some tourists pay to see them. he rumors say that these animals could attack or eat a human for their aggressiveness, explained The Sun newspaper, which revealed the story. The news is not new, but now it has gone viral again.

The animals were purposely infected with diseases like hepatitis. 

“If you are a strange person when you go there, they get aggressive. The only thing they are afraid of is water. They don't swim, they walk along the shore ”, Jerry, one of the inhabitants of the place, told the English newspaper.

Some of the apes have large facial deformities and were classified as "monsters." This came about because of the scientific tests they did on them at a controversial virus testing laboratory (Vilab) established by the New York Blood Center (NYBC) in Liberia in 1974. 

The animals were purposely infected with diseases such as hepatitis and "river blindness" to help scientists develop vaccines for use in sick humans. After more than 40 years of experimentation, NYBC terminated the Liberia project because of an activist campaign against abuse, and the chimpanzees were released onto the island with little food or natural water.

Since then, they have been fed continuously by those responsible for the program who promised to do so throughout their lives, since the place where they are found does not have natural food to subsist. Therefore, they created a natural cage where they have to be fed at all times.

The Humane Society International has taken over the care of chimpanzees

But because of the cost, $ 30,000 a month of daily feeding, on March 5 of this year, the NYBC decided to no longer keep the chimpanzees.

For this reason, the Humane Society International, a group of activists that aims to prevent animal suffering, decided to take care of the chimpanzees and the NYBC pledged $ 5 million to pay for the future food and medical needs of these apes.