PETA Statement: Alzheimer’s Drug

For Immediate Release:
June 14, 2018

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Tasgola Bruner 202-483-7382

Statement from PETA research associate and neuroscientist Emily Trunnell, Ph.D., regarding the ending of late-stage trials for Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca’s Alzheimer’s disease drug:

The failure rate in humans for new Alzheimer’s drugs now stands at a staggering 99.6 percent, and it’s well past time for experimenters to get the message: Stop wasting time on animal tests. For many years, they have tormented monkeys, mice, dogs, and other animals in an effort to create drugs to treat this devastating disease. Since animals don’t get human Alzheimer’s disease, experimenters manipulate their genomes in order to force the buildup of amyloid plaques similar to those in the brains of humans with the disease. The results, after decades of tests, include more than 100 failed drugs, an untold number of animal deaths, and the continued suffering of human victims of the disease.

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