Download Yes- animal testing has developed vaccines for diseases like rabies

By: Amanda Bader-Writing
Coordinator, Christyn
Slavkovsky-Group Leader, Julie
Kapit-Researcher, and Jamie
Rapka-Web Designer
Key Points
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Several million live animal experiments
were done in Great Britain in 2002.
Around the world animal testing is used on
items such as shampoo and new cancer
drugs.
Almost every medical treatment you
receive has been tested on animals.
In the Animal Acts of 1986, the United
Kingdom states that if there is an
alternative, it should be used.
Does It Even Work?
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Yes- animal testing has developed
vaccines for diseases like rabies, polio,
measles, mumps, rubella, and TB.
No-animal experiments can be misleading, an animal’s
reaction to a drug can be different from a human’s.
Yes-Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin, and cancer
treatments has to be first tested on animals.
No-There are successful alternatives which includes:test
tubes studies on human tissue cultures, statistics, and
computer models.
Yes-Many scientists claim that there aren’t any
differences between lab animals and humans, and
humans can’t be used for tests.
No-The stress that animals take in, in labs can affect
experiments, making the results useless.
Alternatives
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There are three R’s : replacement, reduction, and refinement.
Replacement: use other methods such as testing on cell cultures
Reduction:use statistics to reduce the number of animals used for each
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Refinement:improve the experiment and in the process reduce animal suffering