According to Dr. Albert Sabin, a member of the Board of Directors of the pro-research Americans for Medical Progress (9) , told a reporter before his death in 1993 that " There could have been no oral polio vaccine without the use of innumerable animals, a very large number of
animals.”
Dr. Albert Sabin is the researcher who develop the oral polio vaccine from approximately 9,000 monkeys and 150 chimpanzees. Oral Polio is the disease that killed millions of people and left legions of others permanently disabled. The vaccine prevented nearly 500,000 deaths and five million cases of polio. At first, This developer of the oral polio vaccine(OPV) opposed the use of animals in research but after two years of worldwide use, the vaccine prevented nearly 500,000 deaths and five million cases of polio.