Animals Suffer Blood-Sucking Parasites in UMass Chan Laboratory

The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School's laboratory has been found to conduct cruel experiments on animals, such as infecting them with blood-sucking parasites, causing them to suffer from serious health problems, inflammation, chronic blood loss, and even death. One experimenter, Raffi Aroian, is known for infecting hamsters, mice, and rats with parasites and suppressing their immune systems to prolong the animals' suffering. The experiments have been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with grants worth $1.4 million, despite being scientifically unsound and unlikely to benefit human treatment.

In addition to subjecting animals to gruesome experiments, Aroian has violated federal regulations by keeping hamsters in solitary confinement and leaving some without water for 16 hours. The university's animal care committee has taken action against Aroian, but the cruelty and negligence in his lab persist. Animal rights activists are urged to take action and demand that UMass Chan end its involvement in animal tormenting research and instead prioritize non-animal research methods that are human-relevant.