Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is pictured at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. November 22, 2016 in this still image from video. REUTERS/Gershon Peaks/RVN
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Dr. Anthony Fauci doesn't get too excited about the results of animal studies, and he doesn't make house calls.
But when a drug already taken by thousands of people for intestinal conditions appeared to control the monkey version of HIV, it got the attention of the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
