Anthrax

The organization DoSomething.org currently has a campaign Kidnapped Cosmetics, which encourages young people around the world to steal their friends cosmetics (Kidnapped Cosmetics 1). The campaign is not promoting young people to become felons. The reasoning behind this amazing organization’s campaign is to raise awareness for animal testing. The problem, as they state on their website, is “over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year.” In order to…

into the “perfect” citizens? If so, you have the Patriot Act to thank. The United States Patriot Act is an Act set by Congress, signed by former President George W. Bush, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as the 2001 anthrax attacks. The Patriot Act is actually an acronym, standing for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.” Essentially, it aims to defeat any possible acts of…

Theory of Evolution in the 1800s. This theory eventually led to Louis Pasteur testing on a sheep in the late 19th century which was the first major test to be conducted on an animal (Murnaghan, Ian Animal Testing Timeline). Pasteur administered an anthrax vaccine to the sheep to test his germ theory, which showed the importance of vaccines to combat bacteria within humans. This test led scientists to further the creation of vaccines to help combat diseases (Wellcome). Based on data collected in…

000 years” (9). Alcmaeno, a Greek scientist in 500 BC found about how eye sight works. Erasistrtus, an Egyptian scientist in 300BC found out many things to do with the human heart (Wood 8). In the 19th century, Louis Pasteur grew deadly germs for anthrax and made a vaccine by using the weakened cells. He used animals to test this vaccine and it tested positive. The history of animal testing…

The Need for Animal Research A woman gets up early in the morning. She enters her bathroom, takes a shower, puts on makeup, eats breakfast, takes her medication, and heads out the door to her job. In this scenario, the woman uses an assortment of goods, all of which have been deemed appropriate for human use. People go through life using various products on a daily basis. In this case, the woman washed her body with soap, applied a red lipstick, used an oil substitute to cook with, and took a…

I. Introduction From World War I to shortly after World War II, the Western world created numerous significant treaties and agreements including the Treaty of Versailles, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, otherwise known as the Geneva Protocol. However, the Geneva Protocol is one of the most comprehensive and arguably successful agreements to come from the time…

performed the world’s first vaccination in 1796, created to protect the world against smallpox. By inoculating people with substances from a cowpox lesion, he was able to create immunity to smallpox all over the world. Vaccines and antitoxins against anthrax, diphtheria, plague, tuberculosis, and more were developed over the 1930s. Over the next 200 years, procedures for developing viruses in the laboratory underwent medical and technological changes, which led to fast detections and…

Alexandra Hospital massacre in Singapore and the Bataan Death March. The Japanese army were also infamous for their participation in biological warfare and human experimentation. Many prisoners died of diseases such as bubonic plague, cholera and anthrax. They would subject POWs to frostbite and remove each of their limbs until only their head and torso remained when they would be killed. They also were reported to perform vivisections and were subjected to weapons testing. It is approximated…

There are some things that persist throughout history and into the modern world. One of such is the increase of pain or stress levels of an individual to obtain information. These said situations are often classified as torture. These acts have been used since the stone ages into the modern ages, and although have changed drastically over time, still remains. Despite what critics say, torture tactics of interrogation should not be allowed to be used in official government situations; there are…

Some examples of disaster preparedness from the past is September 11th, anthrax, Hurricane Katrina, and terrorism to name a few (Lippmann, 2011). This is very important to know because it shows what lack of preparation there has been in the past. Disaster can be defined with floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and deathly viruses…