Man Drinks 'Poop' Smoothie To Intentionally Get Dysentery, For Science
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The man participated in an experiment to find a vaccine for Shigella bacteria, one of the leading causes of fatalities across the world.
A 26-year-old man drank a life-threatening concoction of Shigella bacteria, which are found in the faeces of people who are infected, in the name of science. Jake Eberts was paid $7,000 by the University of Maryland for taking part in an 11-day inpatient trial. Annnnd infected!! 🤪Here's a delightfully unflattering selfie while taking the buffer solution 2 minutes before the actual shigella solution. Both tasted like saline. Didn't try to do a video for the latter solution because I was not trying to drop biohazard juice on the floor pic.twitter.com/dMWmWAQQhI
He downed a glass of cloudy, salty liquid containing the bacteria knowing it would produce a miserable case of dysentery.
“I am going to be deliberately infected with dysentery and kept in a quarantine facility for 11 days as part of a Phase IIc vaccine clinical trial,” he said in a tweet on April 4, a day before participating in the trial. He later posted a photo of himself actually drinking the smoothie.
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