ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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ARSL's claim that leprosy in the Pacific Islands is likely to be eradicated thanks to a vaccine developed on armadillos demonstrates yet again, with the aid of phoney illustrations that the booklet is intended to lure the naive reader to swallow at face value text which is shallow, flimsy, unsubstantiated. Those skilled in reading material on the subject of vivisection will see at a glance that ARSL is designed for the express purpose of protecting the individual interests of its publishers.
The material unearthed on this subject reveals that the treatment of leprosy has throughout history been based solely upon clinical observation, experience and hygiene. The reason for this may be given in the words of J.A. Kinnear Brown, B.Sc., M.D., M.R.C.S., D.T.M., specialist leprologist, Uganda. In an article in the Bulletin of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, October 1958, page 135, Dr Kinnear Brown writes:
"Leprosy is a disease caused by a bacillus which morphologically resembles that of tuberculosis. It has not been cultured and the disease has not been reproduced experimentally in animals or man. The treatment of leprosy has throughout the ages been based solely upon clinical observation and experience."
Six years earlier Sir George Pickering, M.D., University of London, had obviously been of the same mind for he wrote the following in Lancet, November 8 1952, page 895:
"Any work which seeks to elucidate the cause of disease, the mechanism of disease, the cure of disease, or the prevention of disease, must begin and end with observations on man, whatever the intermediate steps may be. Man is a species that in many respects is quite unlike any species kept in cages and subject to the kinds of experiments that can be made by any discipline other than clinical science."
In Slaughter of the Innocent Hans Ruesch wrote that the Swiss medical historian Ackerknecht claimed that the bubonic plague which caused millions of deaths during the Middle Ages disappeared without vaccination. And that leprosy disappeared from Europe without any specific therapy. "He knew", says Ruesch, "what Hippocrates knew: that the most effective and at the same time harmless prevention of contagion is hygiene".
A recent contribution worth citing comes from Dr Robert Sharpe for 20 years active in the U.K. National Anti-Vivisection Society who shares the views of the other prestigious experts quoted thus:
"Strains of M. scrofulaceum group mycobacteria, isolated from human leprous tissue, can be used to screen drugs against this disease."
(L. Kato, Experientia, 1978, Vol. 34, pages 1322-1323.)
"The localised disease in the foot-pads of mice has been used for this purpose, but some drugs whilst showing anti-leprosy activity in the mouse foot-pad have no therapeutic effect in human leprosy. The only reliable subject for screening drugs against leprosy is the human lepromatous leprosy patient... the in-vitro model is relatively inexpensive and can process a larger number of compounds."
(Dr. R. Sharpe, NAVS, London.)
Unfortunately, mainly due to public complacency brought about by cleverly contrived brainwashing by publications like ARSL, the good advice of acclaimed medical practitioners is lost on the vivisectors from whom no species is safe. Setting their sights on the harmless and peaceful nine-banded armadillo, an animal whose teeth are set so far back in its mouth it cannot even bite, existing on termites and insects deep in the forests of Central America and Mexico, it too has fallen victim to the modern barbarism of vivisection. It too is doomed by the quackery and fraud, the crime and the conspiracy, which, spawned by the medical faculties, who instead of educating their pupils corrupt them, aided and abetted by government agencies and a willing media, is palmed off to a gullible public as science.
Interestingly, and in tune with the foregone, the Guizhou Branch of the CHINA ANTI-LEPROSY SOCIETY announced recently that it has severed itself from the American Leprosy Mission and its associated vaccines and founded its own regime based on the principles of total hygiene, prevention and observation. Setting up its own hospitals and rehabilitation villages it has reduced the incidence of leprosy by two thirds saying it predicts the total elimination of leprosy in China by 1992.