Ebola potential vaccine to be tested on healthy British volunteer

Gerald · 09-17-14, 08:20 AM

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A healthy Briton is to become the first person to receive a potential new vaccine for the 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/2...tish-volunteer

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

Note: 17 September 2014 09.17 BST

Aktungbby · 09-17-14, 08:51 AM

James Phipps, 1788-1853, lives again!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jenner-tests-smallpox-vaccine

Gerald · 09-17-14, 09:34 AM

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

BrucePartington · 09-17-14, 02:40 PM

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

Gerald · 09-17-14, 05:10 PM

^Good movie.

Jimbuna · 09-18-14, 06:44 AM

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

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

Gerald · 09-18-14, 09:09 AM

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

Aktungbby · 09-18-14, 11:34 AM

I would proudly have negotiated in Ms Atkins behalf; not so much the lawyer as the historian-precedence sets the rates IMHO!

"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!

09-17-14, 08:51 AM	#2
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,987 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	James Phipps, 1788-1853, lives again! http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jenner-tests-smallpox-vaccine __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	^Yes, he played a huge breakthrough for a vaccine against smallpox. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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BrucePartington XO Join Date: May 2013 Location: KM AM99 Posts: 405 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Nah.... they had it all this time. __________________ "The bureaucracy is expanding, to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." - Leonard Nimoy

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	^Good movie. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

09-18-14, 06:44 AM	#6
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,481 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Ruth Atkins is the first volunteer and her fee?......less than £400. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29243936 __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

09-18-14, 09:09 AM	#7
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	^No big money she gets, but she certainly makes this for the good deed. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

09-18-14, 11:34 AM	#8
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,987 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Lucky boy! I would proudly have negotiated in Ms Atkins behalf; not so much the lawyer as the historian-*precedence sets the rates IMHO! "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! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!