If all goes well, you won't have died of dysentery like in the Oregon Trail video game, because a brave volunteer took one for the team and tested out a vaccine for thebacteria that kills hundreds of thousands each.
Jake Eberts drank a shot glass of shigellabacteria, which causes the illness, earlier in April. He spent a week at an in-patient facility where his health could be closely monitored. Eberts was a part of a group of 16 volunteers and he posted the entire experience on his website.
The worst eight hours of my life may have been when Eberts was in the control group who had no immunity against the shigella.
Eberts told BI the day before he was dismissed from the trial that he felt like he couldn't move.
He was paid more than $7,000.
I don't want to make myself out to be Mother Teresa here, so I wouldn't have done this for free. It's difficult to get someone to get dysentery, according to Eberts.
The vaccine may move to larger human trials if it is 70 percent effective.
on a side note this is the ad that got me on Instagram. I appreciate a medical research team that doesn't take itself /too/ seriously pic.twitter.com/mGwDWIjbkE
— Jake Eberts (@wokeglobaltimes) April 4, 2022
It's a big job to find a cure for global disease. The team may need more volunteers.
The Oregon Trail-themed ad that sold Eberts on the project should hopefully be enough to make people want to vomit.
Scientists say that Alzhemier may be caused by cell phones.
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