Many people say that animal testing is acceptable such as Michael Allen Fox, Author of the case for animal experimentation. ... There is a common misconception that many people have; they think that the animals used in testing are treated very bad and are kept in unsanitary conditions. ... Those people who feel that animal testing is unethical argue that animals have feelings, rights and can Middlekauff 5 feel pain such as people do. ... The people who are against animal testing feel that the public is not educated on what goes on when animals are being experimented on. ... Animal testing h...

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To get tested the teenager has to go to a testing facility and pay for each STD they want to be screened for. ... If the testing were offered for free, then a lot more teenagers would be getting tested. ... Nearly two-thirds of all STDs occur in people younger than 25 years of age. The more people are infected, the bigger the problem becomes. ... There will be people who will protest against having mandatory testing in high schools. ...

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Drug testing on animals is inaccurate and does not benefit humans or animals at all. ... This is obvious proof that testing on animals is unreliable, but sadistic tests still go on every day. ... The numbers are real and this happening in our world every day only because it is a multibillion-dollar income for some people and is legal in the U.S. ... This is obvious proof that testing on animals is unreliable, but sadistic tests still go on every day. ... The numbers are real and this happening in our world every day only because it is a multibillion-dollar income for some people and is ...

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Health Care Workers and HIV Testing The consequences of HIV infection are very serious, if not fatal. ... Specific blood tests can show evidence of HIV infection. ... All of these laws together help to protect people with HIV from discrimination in the work place. ... The Disability Discrimination Act was passed after this case and outlawed discrimination against disabled people by employers and providers of goods and services. ... These groups believe that the cost for such testing would be phenomenal. ...

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Between 1978-1981 a growing number of people in the US, Sweden, Tanzania, and Haiti began showing signs of what would later be called AIDS. 1983 The Institute Pasteur, France, identifies the HIV virus. 1985 The FDA approves the first antibody test for the HIV virus in humans and blood supplies. ... Some of the Opportunistic Infections people that are HIV+ face are, Bacterial and mycobacterial; syphilis, tuberculosis. ... An estimated 16.3 million people have died from AIDS. 12.7 million adults, 6.2 million women, 3.6 million children. Testing for the HIV virus is a simple blood , saliva, or u...

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A positive HIV test does not in every case mean that you are infected with the AIDS virus. ... Many of the citizens in Egypt don't even bother with getting tested for AIDS. ... Sometimes the people don't get tested for the fear of finding out that they are infected with this deadly disease that will haunt their social status and they are scared of getting isolated from their family. Others don't get tested for AIDS because they just don't care if they have the disease. Sometimes people don't get tested for AIDS because they are unaware of what AIDS is. ...

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In fact, when we take a look at the statistics and facts of the AIDS virus we can see that since 1981, in the United States alone, 343,888 white people and 313,180 African American people have tested positive for the AIDS virus. ... Most people recently infected by the AIDS virus look and feel healthy. ... A blood test, know as the ELISA test, can detect these antibodies and therefore can indicate exposure to the virus. The ELISA test is a test that confirms the presence of antibodies for human T-cell lymph tropic type-III (AIDS virus). This test is the most frequently used test for the scr...

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In America about 1 million people are living with HIV. However, 1 in 7 of those people go years without even know they are effected. ... HIV is a lentivirus that attacks the immune system, since it's discovery over 76 million people have been infected and 39 million people have died. ... The only true way to know if you have been infected is to get tested, you can get tested with your doctor or even buy a test at a drug store. ... Remember to always get tested in case you think you are at risk of being infected....

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Although researchers have depended on animal test data to achieve medical advances, there should be other means of research because testing on animals is cruel, inhumane, and often unnecessary. ... Many AIDS patients have said they are willing to try out new drugs, so why not let them volunteer for testing. In most cases the drugs will need to be tested on humans before the FDA will approve them anyway. ... Many of the ways animals are treated would never be acceptable towards people. We understand that people have certain rights that keep them from being experimented on by other people. ...

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Gradually more and more "mainstream" people got the disease. ... Currently, it is felt that after exposure to the virus, most people will turn seropositive for it (develop a positive blood test for it) within four months. ... This category of people is very hard to test for, and currently felt to be quite rare. ... It is not known if such people can also transmit the virus. ... Testing of donated blood for AIDS has massively reduced the chance of catching AIDS from blood transfusions. ...

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Medical Testing On Animals Essay written by Anonymous Animals have been used in medical research for centuries. ... Although researchers have depended on animal test data to achieve medical advances, there should be other means of research because testing on animals is cruel, inhumane, and often unnecessary. ... In most cases the drugs will need to be tested on humans before the FDA will approve them anyway and it is a known fact that not all drugs work the same on humans as they do on animals. Most of what we do to animals we would never do to people. We understand that people have ...

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This assessment will take place in the form of a written matching test. If you fail the test you must retake the class until you get a 100% on the STD exam. (The class will be offered during the second 8 weeks of the semester for people who fail the first 8 weeks.) ... The more people you have sex with the more likely you are to get a disease If you have had many sexual partners or if your monogamous partner has cheated on you seek STD testing If you have an STD don't be embarrassed to get treated, and tell all of you partners to get treated as well. ... Over 2,500 people are diagn...

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Some people fear that HIV might be transmitted in other ways; however no scientific prove has been found. ... Who should take the test man who have engaged in homosexual behavior; intravenous drug users; women who are considering pregnancy and who are at risk of HIV infection, or whose sexual partners are at risk; heterosexual man and woman; previously tested HIV negative individuals, who continue to practice high-risk behavior. ... You can take anonymous or confidential testing. Confidential testing means, that you are identified and the results are recorded in medical files a...

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Hepatitis C Hepatitis C (HCV) is a pathogen that destroys the liver infecting nearly 4 to 8 million people making it one of the top blood borne pathogens. It is the primary cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer killing around 10,000 or more people a year.. ... To test if you have the virus, doctors would look at family history and give a blood test. ... Additional tests can also tell what strain of virus you got the strain will say how serious the type of virus you got. ... However within the last few years, scientists have developed a vaccine to prevent HCV from infecting your body which...

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Most people think of a deadly virus that is transmitted by sex, needles, or blood transfusions. ... Many of these people don't realize the severity of this modern plague. 665,357 people have AIDS in the United States alone by 1998, and 401,028 people have died from AIDS. ... People injected heroine into their bodies using a needle. These drug users soon set up a "shooting gallery" where people could buy drugs and rent equipment. ... The only way to produce factor VIII was to gather thousands of people's blood and combine it. ...

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That's why testing is so important. Very often people who have the symptoms are worrying unnecessarily. Only by taking the HIV test can someone really know his or her HIV status. ... South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS. ... At present there is no cure for HIV/AIDS, but there are medications that have proven to be very effective in keeping HIV positive people living longer and healthier. ...

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Although researchers have depended on animal test data to achieve medical advances, there should be other means of research because testing on animals is cruel, inhumane, and often unnecessary. ... In most cases the drugs will need to be tested on humans before the FDA will approve them anyway and it is a known fact that not all drugs work the same on humans as they do on animals. Most of what we do to animals we would never do to people. We understand that people have certain rights that keep them from being experimented on by other people. ...

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Most people buy their steroids through a family member or friend from the gym. ... Although it was not until 1986 that a testing program was started (Yesalis 42). ... A few school districts 5 test for steroid abuse and studies are currently under study to see whether such testing reduces drug abuse" (7). ... The most obvious reason people are concerned about anabolic steroid use is that it is cheating (Yesalis 28). ... When people talk about the use of steroids many false facts become present. ...

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Just 15 years ago they started testing for AIDS in blood donors and before that for about 5 years people would be rushed to the hospital with blood loss and they would have a transfusion and later they would be diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS, HIV. ... The CDC suggested that they use the Hepatitis B test. This test was very costly and only worked 80% of the time. ... People suffering can be come paranoid and over sensitive sometimes crying for no reason. ... If we as the people of earth could figure out some way to educate people about AIDS it would stop a lot of the spreading o...

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Ever since 1985, all blood in the U.S. has been screened with the HIV antibody test. ... Hemophilia is a genetic disease in which people lack the ability to clot blood. ... Although there is no cure, many opportunist infections that make people sick can be controlled, prevented or eliminated. ... As you go to the doctor we all may already know this but the doctor must interpret HIV test and results. There is a test in which the CD4 count indicates now how much damage HIV has caused to the immune system. ...

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It became more common in Hemophiliacs (people who get blood transfusions often). ... Over 300,000 people have been diagnosed with aids in the United States alone. 130,000 have eventually died from it. ... People who have been diagnosed usually die 2 to 3 years later. AIDS is diagnosed through HIV antibody testing and through identification of one of the opportunistic infections associated with AIDS. The virus itself is hard to isolate, but blood tests can detect antibodies to HIV, indicating infection with the virus. ...

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The people of this country are inadvertently being persuaded to focus on issues such as these to deflect from the real crisis in America. ... Scientists have even estimated that by the year 2015, one in every ten people will have been exposed to the HIV virus. ... I think it is absurd to merely make these filthy disease-ridden people feel better. ... Through medical records and government required medical testing, all infected persons would be identified. ... Medical testing on all citizens, as well as tourist and immigrants, would then be performed every day thereafter until all contamina...

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After the race Johnson had tested positive for anabolic steroid use. ... In the nineteen eighty eight Olympics Ben Johnson, a Canadian Olympic sprinter, was the first athlete caught testing positive for anabolic steroid use. ... Some people argue that steroids is a form of cheating. ... Many people have argued that steroids are dangerous to the human body. ... Doctors and scientists each day find new ways to use steroids to help sick people. ...

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After HIV was isolated as the cause of AIDS in 1983 and 1984, researchers developed tests to detect HIV infection. These tests have also been used to analyze stored tissues from several people who died from the late 1950's and 1970's. Scientists have concluded that some of these people died from AIDS. ... HIV blood tests, which became available in 1985, caused a gradual decline in transfusion-related cases in the late 1980's. ... Some people however have a flu like illness within a month or two after being exposed. ...

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Following his victory, he failed the preliminary urine test and a second conforming test that medalists undergo at the games. ... The government must be kept as a servant of "We, the People." "We" claim to be a diverse, pluralistic, multicultural society, yet under marijuana prohibition, we have zero tolerance for people whose lifestyles are not acceptable to those in power. ... This is proved to occur in normal people as well as glaucoma patients. ... Yet, as proponents would claim: 1) The THC pill is expensive, people have troubles adjusting to the dosage, and often take it excessively; 2) i...

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