More than 100,000 rats and mice are used in experiments every year for pharmaceutical research at China's Chongqing Municipality lab.
Scientists studying this bald mouse that suffers from a defect in cell-mediated immunity and is highly susceptible to infections.
A worker displays a bald mouse at an animal laboratory of a medical school on February 16, 2008 in Chongqing Municipality, China.
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