I Am Legend: Fact or Fiction?

[Zythus]

If you suggest we test on primates or some other more primitive organism, then you have stuck your hand too far down the cookie jar.

First off, theres all the fiasco and hype about animal cruelty, which I find ridiculous, not because I support it, but because how much predominance they value this tiny issue rather than worry about something with greater importance.

Secondly, ever heard of Ebola Reston? I have a book called "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston which talks about the history and outbreaks of the Ebola virus.
As a summary, in Reston, Virginia, there is a monkey house that sells primates to laboratories for test subjects. One batch of monkeys had an infected animal. Soon after, the whole block was secretly quarantined by US government and Health officials with collaboration from other organizations. Of the staff employed there, 2 of them got infected with Ebola Reston. Luckily, Reston was a mutated strain that did not kill human hosts, but devastated monkeys like flies.
Now lets imagine it was Ebola Zaire, the original Ebola strain with fast incubation periods and has a fatality rate of 90%. As an airborne virus, it wipes an entire city off the slate less than two weeks. Say if Zaire got into Virginia, USA would be a tomb.

So because that animals have simpler qualifications to be test subjects, it is more likely to be overseen for possessing lethal viruses, deadly for humans and animals alike.