Volunteers Needed In Britain To Be Injected With Ebola Virus For Clinical Trials In Exchange Of Cash

The current Ebola outbreak was recorded in December 2013, in a small village in the West African country of Guinea.

Unknown to the village, and the world as a whole, the disease would go on to bring fear, panic, death, devastation and a complete health emergency to the entire world.

The disease spread to villages, towns, and cities across the country before entering neighboring Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Nigeria, Mali, and Senegal will also later record the disease.

All this while, the world left these West African countries to deal with the disease. And with no proper health facilities and medical personnel, the disease spread quickly. The disease later crossed continents and entered Europe and North America. Aid workers and volunteers from western countries contracted the disease. That was when the world, particularly leaders in the Western world, realized the disease has no boundary.

The United States recorded only four cases of the disease; however, this story became the major headline in the mainstream media. President Obama even made the statement, “Ebola is spiraling out of control,” during a global call for action against the disease. That was the moment the World Health Organization (WHO), started organizing emergency meetings with world leaders to solicit support to combat the disease.

The disease caused destruction and panic until August 2015, when WHO reported that it had been able to bring the disease under control. As of October 13 2015, the disease has infected 28,502 people. Out of this figure, as many as 11,312 people lost their lives. The majority of these tragic deaths occurred in the three most affected countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Although there is still no cure or vaccine for the disease, there are major advances. Trials for immunizations have been implemented and according to the WHO, “a safe and effective vaccine is hoped for by the end of 2015.”

Medical researchers in Britain are taking the lead role to try and find a cure or a mechanism that will prevent the disease from spreading.

And to do this, test subjects are needed. The Hellou News reports that Hammersmith Medicine Research in London is looking for volunteers aged 18 to 65 who are “Interested in helping medical research into a vaccine for Ebola and being paid for the help”. The researchers have made it perfectly clear that no one involved would actually catch Ebola.

The study involves up to 12 outpatients visits over the course a year and the researchers are hopeful that this new research will help prevent people becoming infected with the disease in the future.

According to the Mirror, participants will be paid £750. Previous trials held by Oxford University in September 2015 involved patients being injected with a single protein from the Ebola virus to trigger an immune response.

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