They “went down like dominoes”, when given the drug, vomiting and screaming in pain, according to a witness who was given a placebo in the tests. The partner of one volunteer said his face had swollen up “like the Elephant Man”.
The trial drug, a biological rather than chemical product, is a genetically engineered “humanised” protein that is part mouse but mostly human.
Bron: The Guardian, 20-03-2006: Trial drug had affected monkey glands