What ANIMAL diseases have been cures by using animal testing?

Answer 1

Well firstly animal testing is the not the most helpful thing people can do to find the cure for any disease (perhaps not, but you offer no viable alternative).

* === Here are a few substitution methods: human cell and tissue culture, computer simulations, epidemiological and clinical studies, DNA microchips (that simulate the human metabolism for drugs), IRM scanners.. see the film at Safer Medicines link for more info. === === === * === Real scientific methods must replace animal testing. Animal testing is not only irrelevant for humans but very dangerous. There can be dreadful side effects to our animal tested medicine (4th cause of death in modern countries, just after cancer, heart attacks and strokes) and health research is wasting money and time on animals. (For 50 years they've been 'very close' to finding a cure for cancer...) ===

yes and also they should probably be testing it on plants, or something that is not going to be missed on our planet, plants are a lot less important, but still we do need them so test them on bacteria, such as chicken pox (plant cells are fundamentally different from animal cells and so would be of little or no use, chicken pox is caused by a virus) or other harmful bacteria or germs, bacteria are single celled organisms with no nucleus and transcribe DNA very differently from animals so would be of little or no use) yes stop animal testing it's not fair what we do to them. Also even after it's tested on animals they still test it on humans anyway because our DNA is so different we react very differently Example when was the last time you met a diabetic plant, virus or bacterium? Such models would not exist, however we can breed diabetic mice or induce diabetes in mice.

* === You can test on whatever you like but the ONLY model for a human is a human. No species can be a model for another because of fundamental differences (metabolism, way of life, hormones, immunity...) ===

This is a complex question as you use the word "should". "Should" implies a moral imperative in the same way as the word "ought". Some people are happy with animal testing as it is, others would prefer no animal testing at all.

* === For human safety and for animals' respect: We MUST abolish animal testing ===

Some would argue that at present animal testing is a necessary part of drug testing. A new drug cannot ethically be tested on humans in case of detrimental effects which are not understood from preliminary trials such as cell cultures. The cells available which can be cultured are a subset of cancer cells and so do not always respond in the same ways as cells in the human body. By trialling drugs on animal models and then on people, scientists get a more accurate view on the drugs' efficiency and dosing rates. Most people would argue that animal trials should be well designed so as to yield useful information and cause the least suffering possible.

* === 92% of the drugs that were tested and validated safe on animals get chucked out during the clinical trials on human volunteers, sometimes because of the inefficiency but more generally because of the side effects. On the 8% left, those that reach you, another half of the drugs will be pulled back. Next time you get some medicine, read the side effects list and think... who's the real guinea pig? === Some would argue that animals should not be used in drug testing under any circumstances. Animals are not always good models of human biochemistry or physiology. The best animals to use in such research are higher primates as their anatomy and physiology is closest to our own. However, there is some debate as to whether higher primates should be granted rights such as autonomy which are usually reserved for humans due to their intelligence. Both sides would argue that there is a need for greater understanding of the human as an organism and that science should strive to create better non-living models on which drugs could be tested. These models could for example be computer simulations or tissue cultures of non-cancerous cells. However, as yet not enough is known about the function of the organism as a whole or cells by themselves to allow this to happen.

* === Please take a look at the links down below. Technology exists and does need more funding and promotion. Please tell people about this!

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Answer 2

diphtheria

cholera

polio

small pox (the animal in question was a 8 year old boy)

rabies (again, the animal in question was an 8 year old boy)

syphilus

anti-venoms for lots of poisons.

{Diabetes, Athsma, Blue Babies} conditions not diseases.

Edit: The correct answer is none. There is no cure for the diseases listed above. What he is referring to is vaccines that will prevent the disease in the first place, but there has been no cure that has been implemented from animal testing. Although animal testing did contribute in one way or another to each preventative vaccine listed above.

Answer 3

syphilus

cholera

polio

diphtheria and

small pox

Answer 4

Animal testing. If there's a word worse than "hate" let me know. That's how I feel about animal testing. Why do scientists test formulas and junk on animals before people. Well, first they see if the inocent animal gets hurt before they're ready to let people try it. Why? Why test it on an "inocent" animal first? There are more of us than there are of them. So, why not? How is it safer to test something on an "INOCENT" animal than a person?! Why would we rather hurt animals than people? I've never, and will never, understand that.

would you like to know if we save an animal from test and have an human do it we can but a stop to animal testing today.

Answer 5

Cancer, Heart disease, diabetes, diphtheria, and tuberculosis.

Answer 6

rabies, tubercolosis, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, HIV drugs and anit biotics. i know this because i needed to find this out for homework. hope it helps

Answer 7

a leach can cause real damage and can also cure blood diseases when also not cured if bitten in the wild will cause sometimes worms and not the dirt worms ring worms