Hundreds of Medical Research at Monkey Claimed Not Helpful

The finding of new drugs sometimes have to be tested first on animals before attempted by man himself. Special to the monkey, animal activists claimed each year there are hundreds of medical studies that ultimately not much benefit.

Recently, a movement that is an animal lover Zoological Society of London conducted a study of 3,000 medical research between the years 1996 to 2006 that involved animals. Of the many studies, 10 percent of them using monkeys.

Hundreds of studies involving non-human primates that are beneficial to the development of science, but does not directly provide significant benefits for humans. In other words, most of the claims are not very useful.

"Scientific research on monkeys is always controversial and highly emotional. In my view, the funding of research involving non-human primates do not need to proceed," said Sir Patrick Bateson, president of the Zoology Society of London, as quoted from the Independent on Thursday (28/07/2011 ).

Not only in England, the movement against medical research on animals, especially non-human primates such as monkeys also appeared in many countries including the United States. Even from year to year, the numbers are expected to increase.

An educational organization, Foundation for Biomedical Research have revealed that support for the use of test animals will be decreasing in the last decade. Of the estimated 70 percent in the 1990s, support was reduced to 54 percent in 2008.

Although many are calling for the use of animals in medical research is prohibited, however, history records many important drugs discovered through research on monkeys. Among these are the polio vaccine, as well as the method of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's sufferers.