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Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant... by ummonk on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:19AM (#19875015)
>Plus the UK has that anti-gene therapy law because of a disastrous adenovirus trial that killed six healthy volunteers.

Wait, what? Have a link for the uninformed?

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Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant... by Spare_account on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:10AM (#19875463)
As far as I can tell from a quick search, there is neither an anti-gene therapy law, nor has any trial resulted in any deaths in the UK.

The closest I can get in the UK is the Parexel incident in 2006 where six men experienced a cytokine storm unexpectedly and were hospitalised as a result.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-22556736

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