Wanna make $4000?

zoiks

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Volunteer to get malaria at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.

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SEATTLE - The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute will pay volunteers as much as $4,000 to be bitten by mosquitoes infected with malaria. Scientists say no lives are in danger because the volunteers can be cured. The institute is testing which vaccines work fastest.

The head of the program, Dr. Patrick Duffy, says volunteers will spend several nights under medical supervision in a hotel.

All of the human trials will be reviewed for safety by the Food and Drug Administration.
 

hypn0tik

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I'd do it. Better to get malaria in a controlled environment than an uncontrolled one.
 

KK

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Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: legoman666
I have an idea, lets paste links from digg.

i agree i only read up on news if its posted on ATOT so feel free to post more

:thumbsup:
 

jandrews

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Originally posted by: legoman666
I have an idea, lets paste links from digg.

dont you realize this is at a minimum 25% of forum content across the entire internet? Its just digg articles reposted over and over again, people on the internet think they are so smart but then they turn out even worse than people who watch cnn, just read regurgitated stories with no real news value over and over again, congrats!
 

ryan256

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Originally posted by: jandrews
Originally posted by: legoman666
I have an idea, lets paste links from digg.

dont you realize this is at a minimum 25% of forum content across the entire internet? Its just digg articles reposted over and over again, people on the internet think they are so smart but then they turn out even worse than people who watch cnn, just read regurgitated stories with no real news value over and over again, congrats!

Or Fark articles. I see alot of those here too.
 

destrekor

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Oh why don't I live near Seattle? That's easy money, and helping get an efficient vaccine sounds like a damn good idea. Hell, at least since you'd be exposed to it, and then to the vaccine... you're likely not to have to deal with it again. And human trials are fairly safe, because it takes a ton of proven work before you can move to humans.
 

Xylitol

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I would do it if i lived in Seattle
as long as I know that there's a cure right next to me


what's the worst that could happen?
explosive diarrhea?
menstrual stomach aches?
 

RedArmy

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Originally posted by: yovonbishop
Oh I'd do it. Heck yes for malaria and hell yes for $4k. As long as I can recover I'd be peachy. Anyone from NY want to carpool? :p

I'm down. Let's go.
 

gorcorps

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I'm personally leery of the "as much as $4000" part. Guaranteed $4k? Sure... but non-guaranteed isn't worth it.
 

Capt Caveman

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Originally posted by: gorcorps
I'm personally leery of the "as much as $4000" part. Guaranteed $4k? Sure... but non-guaranteed isn't worth it.

The more pain and suffering you go thru the more money you get.
 

Josh

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Originally posted by: gorcorps
I'm personally leery of the "as much as $4000" part. Guaranteed $4k? Sure... but non-guaranteed isn't worth it.

Yeaaa...I don't like that AS much as. What conditions/type of things do you have to do for the full $4000, I'm sure its not just being bitten once by one mosquito boom ur cured in an instant...and if that's the case- I'll take a flight out there right away.
 

buck

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I will toast a warm cup of "fuck that" to this idea. I had buddies that got this in Indo and controlled setting or not, no fucking way.
 

destrekor

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Originally posted by: RedArmy
Originally posted by: yovonbishop
Oh I'd do it. Heck yes for malaria and hell yes for $4k. As long as I can recover I'd be peachy. Anyone from NY want to carpool? :p

I'm down. Let's go.

pick me up in Ohio on the way? :D
 

MegaVovaN

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Yea there are other ways to be a lab rat....who cares what they pay u, u will get damaged and die anyways LULZZZZ
 

IceBergSLiM

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Do it man......but malaria will own your ass!

Symptoms of malaria include fever, shivering, arthralgia (joint pain), vomiting, anemia (caused by hemolysis), hemoglobinuria, and convulsions. There may be the feeling of tingling in the skin, particularly with malaria caused by P. falciparum. The classical symptom of malaria is cyclical occurrence of sudden coldness followed by rigor and then fever and sweating lasting four to six hours, occurring every two days in P. vivax and P. ovale infections, while every three for P. malariae.[30] P. falciparum can have recurrent fever every 36-48 hours or a less pronounced and almost continuous fever. For reasons that are poorly understood, but which may be related to high intracranial pressure, children with malaria frequently exhibit abnormal posturing, a sign indicating severe brain damage.[31] Malaria has been found to cause cognitive impairments, especially in children. It causes widespread anemia during a period of rapid brain development and also direct brain damage. This neurologic damage results from cerebral malaria to which children are more vulnerable.[32]

Severe malaria is almost exclusively caused by P. falciparum infection and usually arises 6-14 days after infection.[33] Consequences of severe malaria include coma and death if untreated?young children and pregnant women are especially vulnerable. Splenomegaly (enlarged spleen), severe headache, cerebral ischemia, hepatomegaly (enlarged liver), hypoglycemia, and hemoglobinuria with renal failure may occur. Renal failure may cause blackwater fever, where hemoglobin from lysed red blood cells leaks into the urine. Severe malaria can progress extremely rapidly and cause death within hours or days.[33] In the most severe cases of the disease fatality rates can exceed 20%, even with intensive care and treatment.[34] In endemic areas, treatment is often less satisfactory and the overall fatality rate for all cases of malaria can be as high as one in ten.[35] Over the longer term, developmental impairments have been documented in children who have suffered episodes of severe malaria.[36]

Chronic malaria is seen in both P. vivax and P. ovale, but not in P. falciparum. Here, the disease can relapse months or years after exposure, due to the presence of latent parasites in the liver. Describing a case of malaria as cured by observing the disappearance of parasites from the bloodstream can therefore be deceptive. The longest incubation period reported for a P. vivax infection is 30 years.[33] Approximately one in five of P. vivax malaria cases in temperate areas involve overwintering by hypnozoites (i.e., relapses begin the year after the mosquito bite).[37]