Vice-President of Merck - "They all died"

Protease inhibitor trials were exposed several years ago in Washington
Post
magazine, and has since been conceded - in part - by the Vice-President
of
Merck, Bennett M.Shapiro.

He acknowledges that trials of a promising protease drug were halted in
1989, after it was tested on lab rats and dogs and they all died. Merck
assumed this treatment would have the same deadly effect on humans.