Animal Testing Puts People In Hospital.

Recent numbers released from the UK based Safer Medicines Trust estimate that adverse reactions to drugs which tested safe on animals put over 1 million people into the hospital every year.

The Safer Medicines Trust tells The Daily Mail that 1-in-15 hospital admissions, or over one million a year, are due to adverse reactions to drugs proven safe in animal testing. Ninety-two percent of all drugs that pass animal testing fail the clinical trail phase after they prove ineffective or dangerous to human subjects. The arthritis drug Vioxx proved safe after extensive testing on monkeys but is responsible for over 200,000 human deaths. These figures alone signal the need for better testing methods that use human biology and not that of animals in labs.

With 1 out of every 15 hospital admissions caused by dangerous and poorly tested drugs, it’s amazing we haven’t moved further from the clearly ineffective animal testing methods. Next time someone defends expensive and cruel animal testing, gently inform them that if a drug proves safe on animals there’s an 8% chance of it working on a human.