Man injects himself with Ebola DELIBERATELY in a bid to battle the deadly disease

UKMirror ^ | 11/7/2014 9:41 | Alex Wellman

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Man injects himself with Ebola DELIBERATELY in a bid to battle the deadly disease

A man has revealed he has been injected with the Ebola virus ON PURPOSE in a bid to fight the deadly disease.

Peter Hubbard said he hopes the small risk he is taking could help create a vaccine to prevent further outbreaks of the disease, which has claimed thousands of lives in west Africa.

Speaking from his apartment in Alexandria, Virginia, Mr Hubbard, a consultant who specialises in natural gas and peer markets, said: "I get a lot of satisfaction out of the fact that this could potentially develop into a viable vaccine that prevents another outbreak. It might not help out with the current outbreak but it could prevent a future one, so that's a real plus in my book."

Mr Hubbard, 35, is one of 20 people taking part in clinical trials for a vaccine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States.

[Caipirabob]

And yet so appropriate to this thread!

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Yaelle]

Stupid title.

[sten]

wait a second

they injected live virus into 20 people, including this idiot, and they DIDN’T quarantine them?

worse still, this moron ran in a marathon, potentially putting everyone at risk?

he might not mind injecting himself ... but I’d guarantee the people in the marathon sure as hell didn’t want to participate in their little ‘study’

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Peter Hubbard said he hopes the small risk he is taking...

Sheesh. What's a large risk?

Voting democrat!

[null and void]

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[iceskater]

I’m having a hard time believing this was sanctioned by any IRB.