The Nation - News from Aug. 25, 1987
An animal-rights group claimed a laboratory raid in which dozens of cats, some infected with a disease transmittable to humans, were removed. Leaders of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the cats were taken from the Agriculture Department’s Research Institute at Beltsville, Md., because tests being conducted on them had “no clinical significance.” Hubert Kelley of the Agriculture Department warned that 11 of the 25 missing cats had a disease that causes abortions in farm animals and could cause pregnant women to have defective children.
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