Researchers are paying people up to $3,300 to be infected with the flu virus:
looking for volunteers
to be infected with the virus on purpose, in an effort to come up with better ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat the flu. Those who are brave enough to participate will receive up to $3,300 in return. According to a news release from the agency, volunteers will get the flu via a nasal spray and then stay at an in-patient facility for at least a week. During that time, researchers will study how the flu affects their bodies, how bad their symptoms are, and how long symptoms stick around.
At least five people have already received the nasal spray. Over the next few months, 75 more healthy people -- ages 18 to 50 -- are expected to do the same across four clinics at Duke University in North Carolina, Saint Louis University in Missouri, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
This isn’t the first time a study like this has been done. Hundreds of people have already taken part in at least four flu trials at the NIH Clinical Center in Maryland, and no one had any severe complications or spread the virus outside the clinic.
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