Well, these two animals in question had been part of a hepatitis research program in an animal lab in New York. So, they had been exposed and were carriers of hepatitis. This whole thing started by a young journalist who worked for, “The Daily Oklahoman,” in Norman, Oklahoma. He had a good friend who used to work with this chimpanzee. There used to be a professor there then he got pretty aggressive and really started some bad PR about this. “Why won’t you take these animals?” And by the time we’d done the research, the articles had already come out by the time we’d done the research and found out these animals had been exposed to hepatitis A, B and C. So, there’s no way that we could introduce ’em into a clean collection of animals. So, that was pretty well it and we received a lot of criticism for that until we had to make it known that hey, these guys are potential health problems, health risks.
