Why do Human-Animal Hybrids Threaten Human Health?
Human-animal hybrids are a human health threat because they open the door to human contract ion of diseases previously limited to animals. Diseases like HlV/AIDS, Avian Flu and Mad Cow have already jumped the barrier from animals to humans without genetic hybridization. Combining human and animal DNA opens up a Pandora ‘ s Box of new disease possibilities for both humans and animals. Creating new species that are part human and part animal also creates environmental threats by ignoring billions of years of natural evolution which could disrupt the Earth’s natural balance. Should genetically modified human-animal hybrids be released into the environment, both accidentally or intentionally, they could have evolutionary advantages that lead them to out-compete native species and change ecosys tems in unforeseen ways. It is becoming more common for stem cell researchers to inject human DNA into rabbit or mouse egg cells to create “nearly human” embryonic stem cells. If these forcibly viabl
