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breakthroughs of the past 100 years have used laboratory animals: from the development of the polio vaccine

If I can test a vaccine on a mouse as well as a primate, only the mouse test is approvable.

There is no vaccine or treatment for the virus, which is spread through mosquito bites. Animal research will be integral in the discovery of vaccines and treatments to stop the spread of Zika Once scientists understand enough about the Zika virus to begin developing a vaccine, animal research will be the foundation of vaccine development. Only the best candidate vaccines make it through pre-clinical animal testing.

Cindy is a PhD student in the Immunology Vaccinology Laboratory, at the University of Liège, and is studying

Forty years of research involving monkeys, rats and mice led directly to the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines The World Health Organization initiated a worldwide polio vaccination programme in 1988 with the aim While there are currently no proven treatments or vaccines for Ebola, the WHO fast-tracked a number of products including two candidate vaccines and two antiviral drugs. The vaccines were first tested on non-human primates (macaques) as the model most representative of the

not infected with the malaria parasite: they are used in a pre-clinical study to test a new malaria vaccine For that purpose, the scientists inject the monkeys with the malaria vaccine, and monitor the immune The latest vaccine approved for children between 6 weeks and 17 months was the result of years of research

The Vaccine Consistency Approach (VCA) is an example of this type of initiative. in the quality control of Rabies, DTaP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and acellular Pertussis) and Clostridia vaccines The VCA states that the quality of subsequent batches of a previously characterised vaccine is guaranteed

Animal research and testing remains an essential part of the development of all new medicines and vaccines

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).