32 primates die in heating accident at Sparks, Nevada facility

On May 28, 2008, a series of human errors led to a heating issue, which resulted in the death of 32 primates at the Sparks facility. This was an isolated incident that occurred in a single room at our quarantine facility and no other primates were affected. The death of these primates is a terrible and unfortunate tragedy. We take this issue very seriously and immediately notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition we proactively self-reported this incident to, and recently met with, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to review the preventive measures that were put in place. We are continuing to work with the USDA on this incident.

alleging that 32 monkeys have been literally cooked to death in a heating system failure.