... human pain and suffering during surgery. Animal testing has helped to develop vaccines against diseases like rabies, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and TB. More than 2.7 million live animal experiments were authorized in Great Britain in 2002. British law states that any new drug must be tested on at least two different species of live mammal. The set of laws in the UK are considered some of the most accurate in the world. The Animals Act of 1986 insists that no animal experiments should be conducted if there is a sensible alternative, which there isn't at the moment. Antibiotics, HIV drugs, insulin and cancer treatments rely on animal tests. Other testing methods aren't advanced enough. Doing the tests on animals has helped keep many people alive. Operations on animals helped to develop organ transplant and open-heart surgery techniques. But there are also many disadvantages, such as the fact that animal ...

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