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Friday, August 19, 2016

Wanted: Volunteers to be infected with Zika - amid desperate bid to find a cure as Florida's outbreak spreads

US researchers are appealing for healthy people to be deliberately injected with Zika.

It is part of a desperate bid to find a cure for the mosquito-borne virus as it spreads in Florida, the only place with local infections in mainland America.

As of Thursday, there were 35 people being treated for Zika caught from local mosquitoes in Miami and Palm Beach, with the figure rising every day.

If government regulators give approval to the medical team in Baltimore, Maryland, they hope to infect thousands of nonpregnant people with the virus.

They will then watch them and track how their bodies react.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Zika has been around before this year.

Anonymous said...

Right and they just want to start making vaccines now!!!! after they infect people... It is all man made viruses...

Anonymous said...

I nominate Chelsea Clinton !!!!

Anonymous said...

Convicts.