The World - News from April 25, 1985

An international medical research body issued non-binding guidelines intended to curtail vivisection, but the group’s scientists stressed that they cannot do entirely without experiments on live animals. The guidelines, drafted in Geneva by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences, call for an end to surgical experiments on unanesthetized animals and urge painless killing of injured guinea pigs. Widespread use of research animals calls for “ethical considerations,” Dr. Zbigniew Bankowski, head of the council, told reporters. But Prof. Henry Danielsson of Sweden added, “Our knowledge is still so limited . . . . We need animal experimentation.”