Does anyone want a paid vacation?

[brooklynite]

University will pay you $3,500 to get the flu and book you a 10-day stay at 'Hotel Influenza'

University researchers are hoping that $3,500 will convince enough people to risk possibly suffering through a bout of diarrhea, fever, body aches and other flu symptoms in the name of science. The pitch is for volunteers to willingly expose themselves to the influenza virus after receiving either the flu vaccine or a placebo, in hopes that the results will lead to a better understanding of the illness.

“In a traditional flu study, we vaccinate people and see if their immune systems respond by creating antibodies that fight flu,” Daniel Hoft, director of Saint Louis University’s Center for Vaccine Development, said in a statement. “In a human challenge study, we vaccinate people, then deliberately challenge their bodies by exposing them to flu to see if they get sick.”

The study will require volunteers to be quarantined for 10 days at the university’s former hotel which was converted into a research room suite and is now being dubbed “Hotel Influenza.” Volunteers will stay in hotel-style rooms with private bathrooms, television and Internet. Researchers will observe the volunteers, conduct blood and lung tests and take nose swabs to see if they are infected with the flu. They will not be able to leave until they test negative for two days.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/06/07/university-will-pay-3500-to-get-flu-and-book-10-day-stay-at-hotel-influenza.html

[Luciferous]

1. Eww, no thanks.

[Rorey]

2. That's going to be a hard "No"

There may be a dollar amount that would be tempting, but $3500 is far too little. Not enough zeroes.

[Siwsan]

3. I've never had the flu, but I also try to avoid tempting fate

So that's a big no thanks.

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. I'm just getting over a bout of strep coupled with bronchitis.

In the fourth week of recovery now.

Somehow I don't believe 10 days is enough for influenza.

[Flaleftist]

5. Pass nt

[jberryhill]

6. Do they have a frequent flu-er program?

[bearsfootball516]

7. Ha. I have a pretty good immune system, so I'd be up for it.

$3,500 to be sick for a few days in a private setting with doctors and nurses to make sure it doesn’t get too bad? Sure.