And if your really desperate for some Disney spending money....

[csmommy]

SMALLPOX VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT

Researchers with the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens at Pawtucket Memorial Hospital are still recruiting participants for a pair of ground-breaking studies into the effectiveness of a new smallpox vaccine.

Needed are healthy participants who are either age 18 through 29 and have never had a smallpox vaccine or who are age 30 and over who were vaccinated as children. Each participant will be paid $200.

For more information, call the study line at (401) 729-2616.


Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island

http://www.mhri.org/

You'd think this would be worth more then $200!

 

[BethR]

Yikes!

 

[JenniferW]

I would rather do that than sit through a time share presentation!

To each their own...

Jenn

 

[lilsonicfan]

Smallpox vaccine is a pretty rough one to get I hear... at least the "old" one is, isn't it something like 10 pricks? ick!

 

[TreeOfLife]

Oh heaven.. The idea is to get extra money and make sure you'll be healthy enough to enjoy it too!

I'd rather get paid to bungee jump, and go to the chiropractor if the rope does not snap!...

 

[punkin]

Only 2 pricks and it used to be that everyone had to get one. I wouldn't really mind and it is better than a timeshare pitch.

 

[Muffy]

I had to get two of them as a child. The first one didn't take. The second one made me very sick! I am not looking forward to a third one!

 

[mad4themouse]

Uggh! Anyone over the age of 30 has a scar on their upper left arm where they got the shot. My husband's is as big as a dime and the pinprick marks from the needles (all 10 needles shot from the same gun simultaneously) are still evident. I remember it as being extremely tender for a long time. I hope that booster shots are nowhere near that uncomfortable! No way would I do this study!

 

[vellamint]

Hey I would........why not......

 

[DNSDisney]

OH BOY!
They would have fun with me! As a child I recieved 3 tries at this before they gave up. Doctors says I must be immune. Never got the scare and once got really really sick from them.

 

[TreeOfLife]

I guess the real danger is if they inject the actual dead bug. But nowadays they inject a biologically engineered vaccine, meaning the body thinks it is the real bug and starts to build up immunity.

So although it is a grossly disfiguring illness, the vaccine may not be so harmless.. The thing is, who is allergic and who isn't? You find out only after the little prick...

 

[The Sybah Shelstah]

Uggh! Anyone over the age of 30 has a scar on their upper left arm where they got the shot. My husband's is as big as a dime and the pinprick marks from the needles (all 10 needles shot from the same gun simultaneously) are still evident.

This and the 30+ comment in the original part of this thread have me confused.
I'm 33yrs old. I did not have the small pox vaccination. So why is it assuming everyone 30 and over has had this vaccination? My mom had it -and the scar on her arm is still visible. But I did not, and I'm over 30.
What gives?

 

[TreeOfLife]

I didn't get it when I was young either, I am 40 now.
I recall they were vaccinating kids in my school and I remember all my little classmates coming out teary eyed and I freaked out and threw such a fit they spared me...

My arms have no marks either.

Oh but those bearing scars might need a booster by now.

 

[dcfromva]

The Sybah Shelstah,

My mom had it -and the scar on her arm is still visible. But I did not, and I'm over 30.

I'm way over 30 and I don't have a scar, either (well, that I am aware of). I asked my Mom about that (a long time ago) and she said little girls were given the shot on the (ahem !) rear end so there wouldn't be a visable scar....
But I am surprised that they say over 30 would have been vaccinated, too. I thought there was a period of time where it was an optional shot before it was completely discontinued in 1980. There were no reported cases in the US long before it was wiped out world wide (in 1977). For that reason, the vaccine was still available to travelers even after it had be eradicated in the US. Were they still giving the vaccine routinely in 1972? Did that mean everyone? Probably a shot record would be a better way to know for sure.
When I saw this topic, I was thinking donate blood plasma-LOL... So I really had to laugh when the topic turned out to be medical research... Well, I guess it would pay for quite a few Mickey Bars...

-DC

 

[Bichon Barb]

said little girls were given the shot on the (ahem !) rear end so there wouldn't be a visable scar....


And all this time I've been blaming it on cellulite!!!!!!!

Just kidding -- no really, I'm just kidding. I'm over 30, and I don't have the scar either. When I became pregnant for my first son, the dr. tested me to see if my childhood immunizations for, I believe, rubella and rubeola (measles and German measles?) took, and no, neither of them took. Apparently a lot of kids born in the mid 1960's shot's didn't take.

 

[cindala]

I remember getting the shot, on my butt, and having to wear this plastic cover over it so I wouldn't scratch it. A small pox or something grew, and we had to wait for it to fall off.

I don't remember getting sick from it, but neither can I see my scar! I was 14 at the time.

 

[disneefamily]

Disnee Dad Says.............................What's wrong with timeshare presentations? At one we got a three bedroom condo at $49 a night for a 90 minute presentation, got out in 70.
At the other we got a 4 star resort on Maui and a car and $125.00 spending credit all for less than half the rack rate for just the room, for a two hour presentation that let us out in 60 minutes!
The only one I don't want to do is DVC, I might end up buying!