Matt Ingram from the University of Brighton's School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences disclosed that about 100,000 people could die this year from the side-effects of drugs designed to help them (Argus, March 8). I wonder how many have already died through animal research?

Today's research, now the cause of great damage to human health, is based almost entirely on vivisection. Animals are different not only from human beings but also from each other, genetically, anatomically and physiologically.

The diseases that are artificially and violently induced in laboratory animals have no relevance to sick human beings, who suffer from

diseases that have arisen spontaneously.

I wonder if the Government and pharmaceutical companies will compensate the relatives of people who die from these drugs?

Let us hope the use of DNA technology will bring about an end to animal experiments and that the government will put more money into promoting this science.

-Judy Way, Overhill, Southwick