Hot Zone by Richard Preston: Uses of Animal Testing

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Uses of Animal Testing research paper Animal Product testing is cruel and inhumane. According to the International Humane Society, animals that are used in experimenting are forced to over-feeding, inhalations, food and water deprivations, prolonged periods of physical restraint, and are burned. Animal testing is wrong and I believe that animals should not be exposed to this type of torture. In Reston, Virginia, there is a company that buys and uses large amounts of monkeys for animal testing purposes. One shipment that they received from the Philippines on October 4, 1989 started to get very sick and die extremely quickly. The caretaker of the monkeys sent pieces of them to USAMRIID, and they discovered that the Ebola virus was killing the monkeys. Even though it was an accident that they discovered Ebola in the monkeys, if Dalgard hadn’t sent those samples when he did and if the strain of Ebola had been one that infected humans, then we would’ve had a huge outbreak and a lot of people infected. After the confirmation of Ebola, he did shut down the entire place to try and contain the virus, even though he should’ve kept the humans away from the monkeys in the first place. If the strain had been able to infect and harm the people, the whole Washington D.C. area would’ve been infected. Peter Jahrling and Tom Geisbert should have died from the Ebola strain if they could’ve been infected. They violated and completely ignored the biosafety level three procedures and precautions just because of their experimental thoughts that the disease was only harmful to monkeys. On page 185, they actually sniffed a sample of the disease and sucked it right into their lungs.

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