Drug Test Disaster in England

[Patriot Heart]

God Bless them. How frightening.

Victims tearing at shirts

By NICK PARKER,
EMMA MORTON and
JACQUI THORNTON

VOLUNTEER who escaped the drug test disaster told last night how he saw six healthy young men turn into wailing wrecks within minutes.

Human guinea pig Raste Khan — who did not know he had been given a harmless placebo in the test — said it was like a horror film unfolding before his eyes.
The 23-year-old TV technician added:
http://images.thesun.co.uk/thumbnail/0,,2003011223,00.gif The test ward turned into a living hell minutes after we were injected. The men went down like dominoes.
First they began tearing their shirts off complaining of fever, then some screamed out that their heads felt like they were about to explode.
After that they started fainting, vomiting and writhing around in their beds.
It was terrifying because I kept expecting it to happen to me at any moment. But I felt fine and didn’t know why.
SNIP
he six affected were among eight volunteers taking part in clinical trials for the American Parexel research company.
Two were given placebos for comparison purposes.
The others were injected with a new drug called TGN 1412, being tested for German firm TeGenero.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006120434,00.html

[Eagle1]

strange that their other trials with previous versions had no problems. hope they can figure this thing out

[DeclinetoState]

Too bad the candidates had to be healthy young men. I could think of a lot of not-so-healthy not-so-young men (and women) whose suffering would have been no great loss.

[Rhino]

Did you see the comments at the bottom of the article? It turned into an animal rights debate.

[Patriot Heart]

Think how much more of tis would happen if we had NO animal testing................