How many ways is animal experimentation for AIDS/HIV testing unsound?
Dr Ray Greek: Pretty much every way. You are talking about two entirely separate systems. Human beings differ even amongst ourselves in how we respond to HIV. Some people can become infected with HIV and progress to AIDS very slowly if at all. Other people can become infected with HIV and progress to AIDS very, very rapidly. Again, there are very small differences in our genes and how these are regulated or turned off and on. So, if one human being cannot even predict what another human being will do in terms of drug response, testing on an entirely different species is utter foolishness. Abolitionist: The differences you quote in your books are profound in their differences. One of the major differences you spoke of is the number and ratio of helper T-cells to killer T-cells in chimpanzees is different as AIDS selectively attacks the helper T-cells. Another difference is unlike humans, chimpanzee helper T-cells counts do not drop to zero with infection. Another thing, chimpanzees lack
