Ebola potential vaccine to be tested on healthy British volunteer

[Gerald]

A healthy Briton is to become the first person to receive a potential new vaccine for the Ebola (http://www.theguardian.com/society/ebola) virus.
The volunteer will be given the inoculation in a safety trial that experts at the University of Oxford are conducting.
The person will be the first of 60 to receive the experimental drug in the UK trial.


http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/17/ebola-potential-vaccine-tested-healthy-british-volunteer


Hope that the test gives a good basis for further research, as this is vital.


Note: 17 September 2014 09.17 BST

[Aktungbby]

James Phipps, 1788-1853, lives again!:salute: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jenner-tests-smallpox-vaccine (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jenner-tests-smallpox-vaccine)

[Gerald]

^Yes, he played a huge breakthrough for a vaccine against smallpox.

[BrucePartington]

Nah.... they had it all this time.


http://www.etonline.com/photo/2013/08/24036489/outbreak_640.jpg

[Gerald]

^Good movie.

[Jimbuna]

Ruth Atkins is the first volunteer and her fee?......less than £400.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29243936

[Gerald]

^No big money she gets, but she certainly makes this for the good deed.

[Aktungbby]

I would proudly have negotiated in Ms Atkins behalf; not so much the lawyer as the historian-precedence sets the rates IMHO!:up: "We do not know if James or his father were paid for the experiment, but later in life Jenner definitely rewarded his first test subject. When James Phipps was married with children, Jenner gave him a free lease on a house. Phipps was grateful to Jenner, and attended the physician's funeral on 3 February 1823. However, if the experiment had gone wrong, Jenner would probably have kept quiet about it, and James Phipps would have been forgotten, like many other victims of medical experimentation." It's good when guinea pigs have a name! :salute: