When speaking of animal research, it is easy to see it as a morbid, more grotesque field. This is likely because it is easy to see the words “research” and “experimentation” as surgeries that are performed to see if something works and could usually result in death of the animal used in the experiment. However, this is not so, with much of today’s technology animal research and experimentation is performed when there is no better alternative and with medical advancements we can safely perform many experimental surgeries and procedures on laboratory animals. So then, why should we? Well over the past century the amount of progress made in medical treatments for many diseases is so great due to animal research that there are many diseases that
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Animal research has played a vital part in the treatment and curing of diseases. To get a good idea of the impact animal research made we can look back at the late 1940’s and early 50’s, a time when polio was terrifying families across the country. To capture what animal research accomplished the AALAS foundation wrote an article describing how the cure for polio was found, it reads ““In the late 1940s, polio crippled and killed thousands of people around the world every year. Polio reached a peak in the United States in 1952, with over 21,000 paralytic cases. After a vaccine was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, polio was brought under control and practically eliminated as a public health problem in industrialized countries. Today, the disease has been eliminated from most of the world... which [was] made possible through animal research.” This article is one of many that shows why it is absolutely necessary to continue to back animal research, without it we never know when the next polio like disease could take hold. Should animal research be abolished we would not only lose the ability to quickly discover treatments for diseases that we did not previously know of but we also lose years of already made progress
Animal research has played a vital part in the treatment and curing of diseases. To get a good idea of the impact animal research made we can look back at the late 1940’s and early 50’s, a time when polio was terrifying families across the country. To capture what animal research accomplished the AALAS foundation wrote an article describing how the cure for polio was found, it reads ““In the late 1940s, polio crippled and killed thousands of people around the world every year. Polio reached a peak in the United States in 1952, with over 21,000 paralytic cases. After a vaccine was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, polio was brought under control and practically eliminated as a public health problem in industrialized countries. Today, the disease has been eliminated from most of the world... which [was] made possible through animal research.” This article is one of many that shows why it is absolutely necessary to continue to back animal research, without it we never know when the next polio like disease could take hold. Should animal research be abolished we would not only lose the ability to quickly discover treatments for diseases that we did not previously know of but we also lose years of already made progress