Bloke is 'brutally sick' after drinking diarrhoea smoothie for experiment
dailystar.co.ukvaccine trial. While shigella is only the second deadliest diarrhoea infection – the top honour goes to Rotavirus, which there is no vaccine against it.The trial Jake took part in is designed to help develop a vaccine that could save millions of lives.He live-tweeted the gruelling eleven-day “challenge, saying the sixth day was probably the worst: “Miss Shigella whooped my butt today,” he wrote. “Soiled myself twice”.With spiking blood pressure and burning up with fever, Jake says he became delirious.“That was the most brutally sick I have ever been,” he said later, “and I wanted to die for a solid six hours.
I cannot imagine how terrifying this disease is for a small child”.He explained that he was going through the hellish University of Maryland trial because dysentery causes tens of thousands of deaths a year, particularly in the developing world where access to clean drinking water can be impossible.“I signed up for this study sort of nonchalantly after seeing an ad on Instagram months ago,” Jake said.
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