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Had Pasteur not shown how dogs could be vaccinated using weakened samples of the virus (made from rabbits ), we would not have both the veterinary and human rabies vaccines.

world is facing a growing anti-science movement, which ranges from anti-animal experimentation to anti-vaccines

Biomedical Research – 2003 Polio Thousands of people, for example, have their lives to thank to the vaccination

But the first batch of an experimental vaccine— now being sent to Liberia—offers fresh hope to control products including two candidate vaccines and two antiviral drugs. There are two vaccine candidates currently undergoing human trials. The other vaccine is being produced by NewLink Genetics and Merck Vaccines USA, in collaboration with Health Canada (rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine).

asked a number of researchers this very question: “Preclinical animal research is an essential step in vaccine It is not possible to take a new experimental drug or vaccine into human testing without doing safety

of the last more than 100 years we owe to animal research, e.g. antibiotics, insulin for diabetics, vaccinations

the fact that primates have been essential in many important medical advances; for example the polio vaccine Currently the main areas of primate study are infectious diseases, for example, to develop vaccines and They are also used in safety testing new medicines and vaccines. significant progress in understanding the virus transmission and pathogenesis; modelling prevention, vaccines The continued use of NHP's will be instrumental in the work towards a vaccine that can reliably prevent

The badger TB vaccine needed to use animals, for instance, and most of the 200 or so cats are used in