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Animal Testing supporters believe that this can help develop new cures for diseases, and develops new products. But this is not true, 100,000 people every year are killed by prescription drugs every year. More than 2 million are hospitalized. 4 out of every 10 patients who take prescribed drugs can suffer severe side effects. Lastly, 1 in 10 patients that occupy hospital beds have been made ill by their doctor. All of these things have all been tested dozens of times on animals and have passed the test, and yet humans are still harmed by these products. In the 1950’s, and drug called Thalidomide had been tested on thousands of animals. This was intended as a sedative for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and caused no harm to the mother or child. After this drug was released 10,000 mothers gave birth to children with severe deformities. (OHSU) Today we still test many products on animals and many still end up causing harm to humans. If we have the technology we can use computers to map the effects of different drugs and products. Dr. A Sabin said, “Giving Cancer to lab animals has not and will not help us understand the disease of to treat persons suffering from it.”