The quality of life for pets, farm animals and wild life has also improved because of animal research ("Untitled"). Millions of dogs, cats, and farm animals would have died from anthrax, canine parvovirus, feline leukemia, distemper, rabies and more than 200 other diseases now preventable thanks to animal research ("Animal").
The 1998 Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to American scientists Dr. Robert F. Furchgott, Dr. Louis J. Ignarro, and Dr. Ferid Murad. These doctors received this award for their research into the effects of nitric oxide in the body. These scientists" fundamental research has enabled other scientists to explore new treatments for cancer, heart disease, impotence, and stroke. In fact, more than .
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two-thirds of all Nobel Prizes in medicine have been given for discoveries that involved research with animals (Calnan).
In 1961, after thirty years of studying polio, Albert Sabin's oral vaccine was introduced in the United States and widely distributed. In the nearly forty years since, polio has been eradicated in the Western Hemisphere. Scientists and laboratory animals played a critical role in bringing about the end of polio. Animals will continue to be just as vital as the scientists who study these animals (Sabin).
Dr. Joseph E. Murray, a member of the board of directors of Americans for Medical Progress, claims that AIDS research would be impossible without animal experimentation. Ingrid Newkirk, the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA), told a magazine reporter that if the cure for AIDS resulted from animal research, "we"d be against it." A person can not let AIDS go uncured because of these activists" rhetoric (Murray). Jeff Getty is living with AIDS. Getty's life and the lives of millions of people with HIV/AIDS depend on scientists working with animals to develop new therapies. The drugs that these people take to stay alive until a cure is found have come about only because of animal research (Getty).