Animal Experimentation | Nonhuman Primates Should Not Be Used in Experiments
Animal Aid, founded in 1977, is the United Kingdom’s largest animal rights group.
Nonhuman primates make poor subjects for experimentation, and their use may even cause harm to humans. For example, one drug for arthritis killed sixty-one people, despite having been tested successfully on primates. Infectious disease research on primates has encountered devastating failures as well, particularly in AIDS research. Similar problems have arisen in experiments on neurological disorders, including studies on stroke treatments. Since primate brains work differently than...
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