The following is PETA's August 20th, 2025 news release regarding this press conference. UnchainedTV is publishing the entire news conference because we believe this is such a serious crisis that the public has the right to know all of the details given that the mainstream media fails to give this issue the importance and exposure it deserves.
PETA's written report is available here: https://shorturl.at/o7mMi
PETA News Release:

Biosecurity Breach: PETA Press Conference to Expose TB-Infected Monkey Imports

What: Flanked by crates of shrieking “monkeys” and humans in hazmat suits, PETA at a Wednesday news conference outside the Department of Health and Human Services will appeal to the agency to immediately ban dangerous and outdated monkey importation from Asia and Africa to the U.S, which for years has silently funneled tuberculosis (TB) into U.S. laboratories.

At the conference, PETA will release a report revealing the true and hidden scope of the TB threat and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) role in enabling it, including a study from the CDC itself confirming that imported monkeys bring TB with them, a clear biosecurity threat. From 2021 to 2024, 69 cases were detected while the monkeys were in quarantine, with another 16 after the monkeys were sent to laboratories. But disturbingly, the CDC looked at just 107 of the nearly 100,000 imported animals. The CDC relies on limited, voluntary data from importers and doesn’t require rigorous TB tests.

“PETA has warned the CDC since 2022 that its monkey import pipeline is a ticking TB time bomb, but its willful blindness has allowed a known biosecurity threat to pour into the U.S.,” says report co-author and PETA Senior Science Advisor for Primate Experimentation Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, who will speak at the conference. “PETA urges the CDC to end the importation of monkeys to U.S. laboratories for public safety, scientific integrity, and the monkeys themselves.”
Where: Outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Ave. S.W.