Getting paid $300 to help test a small pox vaccine...would you do it?

[vi edit]

University of Iowa is conducting a study on a very diluted version of the smallpox vaccine. It's diluted down to 1/5th it's normal dosage and they are testing to see if it's still effective. there's like a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that something might go wrong. I could get paid $300 to do it.

I'm really thinking about it. Would you do it?

 

[RossMAN]

How many injections are required? 1, 2, 3, etc.?

 

[Imported]

I'd go for it.. how do they test the vaccine though? Subject you to smallpox or something similar?

 

[spaceman]

do it, for the good of all humankind.






!

 

[PsychoAndy]

I sold my locker in HS because I had a prime location. I'll test it.

-PAB

 

[Wallydraigle]

The thought of dying doesn't really bother me. In fact it has a certain appeal at times. But I do believe I would feel pretty stupid as a lay dying of small pox, knowing that I did it all for $300.

 

[vi edit]

One prescreening visit.
One visit for the actual vaccination.
And then another 4 visits over a 6 month period to do blood work.

Get paid $50 after the injection, and then $250 after the final blood work visit.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
One prescreening visit.
One visit for the actual vaccination.
And then another 4 visits over a 6 month period to do blood work.

Get paid $50 after the injection, and then $250 after the final blood work visit.

nope not worth that much effort.

 

[vi edit]

I should clarify better. The actual amount of smallpox in the vaccine is 1/5th the amount that is in the "normal" smallpox vaccine. So, I'd *roughly* have 1/5th the chance of something harmful happening than someone would have with the current vaccine.

They are testing to see if the less powerful vaccine is still effective in getting acceptable blood levels of antibodies.

 

[Electrode]

add a few 0's to that figure and I'd do it.

 

[wfbberzerker]

i would definitely do it.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: vi_edit
One prescreening visit.
One visit for the actual vaccination.
And then another 4 visits over a 6 month period to do blood work.

Get paid $50 after the injection, and then $250 after the final blood work visit.

nope not worth that much effort.

Gotta agree. 6 visits and and a 6 month wait to get $300 is waaaayyy too much hassle.

 

[XMan]

I'd need more than 300 bucks.

 

[RossMAN]

I like the fact that it's 1/15th diluted but as others have recently stated this is a lot of hassle for merely $300.

If it were $500 or more I'd seriously consider it.

 

[Zenmervolt]

It would take a hell of a lot more than $300 for me to let someone stick a needle in me.

ZV

 

[vi edit]

Heh. visgf and I are thinking of going in at the same time for all our visits, and nabbing the $600 for it. It'd make nice spending cash for our honeymoon next June

 

[Grasshopper27]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
University of Iowa is conducting a study on a very diluted version of the smallpox vaccine. It's diluted down to 1/5th it's normal dosage and they are testing to see if it's still effective. there's like a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that something might go wrong. I could get paid $300 to do it.

I'm really thinking about it. Would you do it?

Add three zeros to the end of that price tag, then I'd do it. Almost everything has a price tag, that one has a much larger price tag for me.

Grasshopper

 

[zippy]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Heh. visgf and I are thinking of going in at the same time for all our visits, and nabbing the $600 for it. It'd make nice spending cash for our honeymoon next June

Assuming it doesn't kill you.

Too risky IMHO - I'm not a big fan of injecting myself with one of the most deadly diseases known to man...even if it is dead and just to build up antibodies.

 

[vi edit]

On the flip side, on the slim chance there's a biological attack on the U.S. with small pox, I'll be one of the lucky few who's already immunized...assuming that the diluted form is effective.

and...I'm sacrificing myself in the name of science

Statistically speaking...I have a greater chance of dying driving down there than I do from the vaccine itself.

 

[Tominator]

University of Iowa is conducting a study on a very diluted version of the smallpox vaccine. It's diluted down to 1/5th it's normal dosage and they are testing to see if it's still effective. there's like a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that something might go wrong. I could get paid $300 to do it.

Who do you get to test it on?

 

[illusion88]

I would probaly go for it. The 300$ would get me about a new Bodyboard, if I sell my old one for 150$. Id be game for it.

 

[LH]

There are people that make a good living being test subjects. Id do it.

 

[slycat]

not worth it...i mean if u develop some crazy sh|t later down the road...
u'll be sol...and u'll be kicking urself for that measly $300.

 

[Yzzim]

just do it

you get $300 for 6 visits.

I get paid $300 for 2 weeks worth of (part-time) work. Seems like you already have your mind set on doing it anyway.

 

[Spudd]

Is $300 really worth it to find out 35 years from now you've got some kind of genetic disorder caused by their faulty vaccines? LOL. I know that's a stretch, but for $300, would you risk it? I wouldn't.