experiment on animals.ppt

How exactly has animal research helped you and your family? Vaccinations for polio, diphtheria, mumps, measles, rubella, pertussis, and hepatitis. Treatments for asthma, severe burns, juvenile diabetes, leukemia, newborn sickness and premature births. Prevention and treatment of birth defects. Antibiotics for a variety of bacterial infections. Microsurgery to reattach severed limbs. Remedies for childhood poisonings. Management of epilepsy, cystic fibrosis. Organ transplants. Correction of congenital heart defects. Without animal research: Polio小儿麻痹症would kill or cripple thousands of unvaccinated adults and children each year. Most of the nation’s one million insulin胰岛素-dependent diabetics would be dead. More than 60 million Americans would risk death from heart attacks, strokes or kidney failure – because there would be no medicine to combat high blood pressure. Chemotherapy化学疗法wouldn’t exist – and couldn’t save 70 percent of children who now survive acute lymphocytic leukemia. People disabled by strokes or spinal cord injuries could not benefit from rehabilitation techniques. More than 1 million Americans would be blind in at least one eye – there would be no surgery to correct cataracts. Newborns who develop jaundice each year would contract cerebral palsy, now preventable through phototherapy. There would be no kidney dialysis. Surgery of any type would be rare – and extremely painful – because there would be no anesthesia. Smallpox, which has been eradicated, would continue unchecked. Millions of dogs, cats, other pets and farm animals would have died from anthrax, distemper, canine parvovirus, feline leukemia, rabies and more than 200 other diseases now preventable. Example: Poliomyelitis (Polio)脊髓灰质炎; 小儿麻痹症 Since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of cases has fallen by 99.8%, from an estimated 350 000 cases in 1988 to 483 in 2001. In the same time period,