From Staff Reports

YEMASSEE, S.C. — A South Carolina monkey farm “has been steadily growing its business” — that allegedly includes testing a vaccine for the highly infectious Zika virus — in a secretive laboratory inside its boundaries,” the Charleston Post and Courier reported on Dec 22.

For instance, the Post and Courier story contended thst “when a prestigious research team from Boston” wanted to test a vaccine for the highly infectious Zika virus,” it brought the project to Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center, based in Yemassee, S.C.

“The team also has used Alpha Genesis for studies on vaccines for the potentially deadly viruses that cause COVID and HIV,” the Post and Courier added. 

Meanwhile, the Boston team has reported that “all of its projects won approval from an internal ethics committee at Alpha Genesis that is required by law to guard public safety and humane animal care,” rhe newspaper noted.