Researchers from Southampton University have apropositionfor you : deliberately catch a bout of whooping cough and get pay £ 3,526 ( over $ 3,800 ) – all in the name of scientific discipline .
The requirements : You must be 18 - 45 eld old , a non - tobacco user , in good health and , oh you bang , willing to live in an isolation unit of measurement for 17 days .
The purpose of the field is to meliorate vaccine againstpertussis , otherwise be intimate as whooping coughing . The respiratory parcel of land infection is have by a bacterium calledBordetella pertussisand can speedily spread from one person to the next . It is particularly life-threatening to babies and infants .
The team will taint healthy participants with a small superman of pertussis and monitor their shape . While this will have some of the volunteers to get sick , those who do n’t are the ones the researchers are peculiarly penetrating to study . These lucky folk are either dumb carrier or naturally resistant to the infectious disease .
" We want to cognize what ’s so particular about these masses and why we ca n’t make them into silent letter carrier , ” team contribute Robert Read , director of the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre , told theBBC .
For the written report , they hope to get 35 volunteer who will allow the team to deliberately infect them . They will then pass 17 days in an isolation social unit , with some minor procedure such as nasal and throat swabs performed throughout .
The isolation units do n’t seem half bad either – volunteers will have a private room with admittance to a recreational sphere , as well as meal , deglutition , and amusement .
So what will you be getting into ? Well , the symptoms for adults are comparatively meek . Unless you ’re one of the fortunate few who are immune , you ’ll in all probability experience coughing , sneezing , fluid nose , and a low fever . You may also have some diarrhea .
The true risk of whooping cough lies in evanesce the transmission on to babies . Globally , it kills thousands a twelvemonth – in 2015 , there were 89,000 death due to the disease , grant to estimates by theWorld Health Organization .
Of course , the research worker will give participant antibiotic drug at the remnant of the test to clear up their infection .
The study is part of a £ 24 million research project partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .
Those concerned can netmail UHS.recruitmentCRF@nhs.net
[ H / T : BBC ]
