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What if we halted research using animals today?
New ways of repairing congenital heart defects would have to be abandoned or tested on children.
A cure for diabetes would be beyond reach.
There would be no hope of finding a effective and safe vaccine for
AIDS
.
Work on techniques to treat paralysis in people with spinal cord injury would have to cease.
There would be little hope of a normal lifespan for the one in 400 young New Zealanders who have cystic fibrosis.
Cures for schizophrenia,
multiple sclerosis
and Alzheimer's disease would be put back decades - or possibly forever.
Ways to prevent many cancers would never be found.
The development of urgently needed new drugs to treat heart disease, cancer and a host of other diseases would be severely restricted.
It would be too dangerous to test exciting new products like artificial blood, which
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