Does animal testing work?

Mar 8 2008 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Yes: Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and TB.

No: Animal experiments can be misleading. An animal’s response to a drug can be different to a human’s.

Yes: Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin and cancer treatments rely on animal tests. Other tests aren’t advanced enough.

No: Successful alternatives include test tube studies on human tissue cultures, statistics and computer models.

Yes: Operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery techniques.

No: The stress that animals endure in labs can affect experiments, which makes the results meaningless.