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How Have Animals Contributed to Improving Human Health?
How Have Animals Contributed to Improving Human Health?
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In 1870, the leading cause of death in the United States was tuberculosis.12 Of all the people born in developed countries like the United States, a quarter were dead by the age of 25, and about half had died by the age of 50. Those fortunate enough to have survived to old age had probably experienced several bouts with diseases like typhoid fever, dysentery, or scarlet fever.13 Today, the leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease and cancer—diseases of old age rather than infancy and childhood.
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Furthermore, debilitating conditions such as traumatic injury, strokes, arthritis, and a vanety of mental disorders continue to exact a severe toll on human well-be~ng. Animal research will be no less important In the future than it has been in the past.
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