Animal tests ‘false reassurance’
Animal tests on the kind of drug given to the six men ill in a London hospital may not be the best way of evaluating the effects in people, an expert warns.
The drug they took stimulates a protein only found in humans.
Dr David Glover, an expert in drug testing, said this meant animal tests of medicines of this sort might give falsely reassuring results.
He said it might be better to look at innovative ways of testing small amounts of such drugs on people.
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