Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:08:59 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] NIH flu study looking to pay volunteers $3,000 to get sick
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Excerpt:
Here's the issue: The vaccine is designed to raise people's levels of a
particular flu-fighting antibody. It targets a protein that acts like the
virus' coat, called hemagglutinin - the "H'' in H1N1, the strain that
caused the 2009 pandemic and that is causing the most illness so far this
winter, too.

But it's not clear what antibody level is best to aim for - or whether a
certain amount means you're protected against getting sick at all, or that
you'd get a mild case instead of a severe one.

"As mind-boggling as it is, we don't know the answer to that," said Dr.
Anthony Fauci, chief of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases. "We made some assumptions that we knew everything about flu."

Just targeting hemagglutinin probably isn't enough, Memoli added. Already,
some people in his study didn't get sick, despite remarkably low antibody
levels, meaning something else must be protecting them.
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<http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/01/nih-flu-study-looking-to-pay-volunteers-3-000-to-get-sick-99633.html>

    mark