Animal Testing No Harm, Only Benefits - 1710 Words

Korey Gonzales ENGWR 300 Ms. Perales April 5, 2016 Animal Tests: No Harm, Only Benefits As the years have passed the human race has come across and discovered many different diseases. Many of the diseases were lethal due to the fact that there was no cure to be found. But as years went on our technology began to â€Å"evolve†, we found cures for what many would think are incurable. The practice of using animals in biomedical research has led to significant advances in the treatment of various diseases. Animals would be injected with the disease and through series of tests they created a vaccine to fight off the disease. Many animals are related to humans and share the same emotional status as humans do. There are experiments where dogs are†¦show more content†¦Another fact about animal testing is that â€Å"The polio vaccine tested on animals, reduced the global occurrence of the disease from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 223 cases in 2012† (Curie). Research on animals granted scientists with major advances in the c omprehension and treatment of breast cancer, brain injury, childhood leukemia, malaria, and an immense amount of others, and involved in the creation of pacemakers, cardiac valve substitutes and anesthetics. Chris Abee, the director of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center animal research center explains, â€Å"We would not have a vaccine for Hepatitis B without chimpanzees...the use of chimpanzees is our best hope for finding a vaccine for Hepatitis C† (Education Research). If the vaccines created by humans were not tested on animals, millions of animals would have died from rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, infectious hepatitis virus, tetanus, anthrax, and canine parvovirus (Biomedical research). There are even treatments for animals that were developed using animal testing. Pacemakers for heart disease and remedies for glaucoma and hip dysplasia (Biomedical Research). Rachel Hajar, a Biologist, states â€Å"Animal testing has also been a great help in saving endangered species fr om extinction, including the black footed ferret and the Condor species. Even Koala bears are catching sexually transmitted chlamydia and now classified as endangered in some regions of Australia (Hajar).