No matter how many checks, there's a human trial, and that may not go to plan either:

DrBazza • yesterday at 4:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

No matter how many checks, there's a human trial, and that may not go to plan either: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4811626.stm

Two men who fell seriously ill following a clinical drugs trial remain in a critical condition but four others are showing signs of improvement.

All six are still in intensive care in Northwick Park Hospital, north-west London, after falling ill on Monday.

TeGenero, which manufactures the anti-inflammatory drug, says it has apologised to the men's families.

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6LLvveMx2koXfwn • yesterday at 8:57 PM

All patients recovered, the final patient left hospital after 3 months. Not ideal. The company went bankrupt and the outcome was better regulation in the UK and Germany; great wiki article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theralizumab including the relevant:

    Critics of animal testing have cited the case to argue that experiments on nonhuman animals, even in species closely related to humans, are not necessarily predictive of human responses, and cannot justify the harm inflicted on animals or the resultant risks to humans

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