'I was so exhausted that I just laid down on the bathroom floor for several minutes.' 'I went to go to the bathroom and every single part of that - getting up, walking, grabbing toilet paper - felt like a Herculean effort,' he wrote. He had visited the toilet 11 times that day and was also feeling extremely tired. Over that day, Mr Eberts said he had started suffering dysentery and soiled himself twice. 'No diarrhea yet, but Chekhov's diarrhea revolver is now just hanging above me and every time I I am pulling the trigger in the world's worst game of Russian roulette.' Cramps, slight chills, stool sample normal, at least visually.
Mr Eberts was one of 16 people in the phase two challenge trial testing one - which has the scientific name SF2a-TT15.Īfter drinking the shigella, he reported on Twitter feeling well over the first two days after being infected.īut on day three he wrote at 2.50am: 'Woken up by what I can only describe as a feeling of funny business in my gut. There is currently no vaccine available against shigella, although several candidates are in development. I cannot imagine how terrifying this disease is for a small child.' Summing up the illness, Mr Eberts said: 'That was the most brutally sick I have ever been, and I wanted to die for a solid six hours. He suspects he got the placebo, or inactive vaccine, because the sickness was so bad. He had received two jabs about a month apart, and was incarcerated for 11 days until the infection cleared. Mr Eberts was infected in a challenge trial, where participants get an experimental jab or placebo and before being exposed to the disease they were inoculated against. Nurses were quick to give him fluids to replace what was being lost, and put him on antibiotics to help fight the infection.
Over the next 48 hours he faced stomach cramps, bloody diarrhea, a fever of 103F, and felt so exhausted that lifting any of his limbs was a 'Herculean effort'. Within three days he was waking up early with a feeling of 'funny business' in his stomach and having to rush to the bathroom. Jake Eberts, from Washington D.C., was paid $7,000 to ingest the shigella bacteria - often spread by contaminated water - at Maryland University last month. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.A 26-year-old researcher who drunk a shot of dysentery-triggering bacteria for a vaccine trial was left rushing for the toilet and feeling so ill he 'wanted to die'. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).