Deliberate Dysentery
Codon
JANUARY 21, 2024
Introduction The intentional infection of human beings with pathogens under study has been going on for centuries. In 1796, an English physician named Edward Jenner inoculated an 8-year-old boy against smallpox with cowpox lesions he retrieved from the hands of a dairymaid. Today, refined versions of these human challenge studies have become standard practice in testing vaccines for vector-borne diseases (e.g., yellow fever, malaria, and dengue), evaluating new drugs or treatments, and studying
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