I am an Ebola Vaccine Test Subject Last night, I was frozen in place by a Facebook post. On first appearance, it doesn’t look like much: a picture of a dirt-strewn clearing in a forest. Saplings sprout from the rutted ground and a lone wooden cross sits in the center of the photograph It’s not until you read the caption that you truly understand what you are looking at: Post by Javid Abdelmoneim. The picture is of a mass grave in Sierra Leone, dug for people who have succumbed to Ebola and were unidentified at the point of death. Its stories like this that made me want to take part in the first-ever clinical trial for an Ebola vaccine, which is currently underway at Oxford University’s Jenner Institute. Read more... More about Health, Medicine, Vaccine, Us World, and World Mashable Mashable Contributor October 09, 2014 at 08:04PM
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:20:41 +0000
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