Blood Money

So I applied to participate in a Clinical Trial involving the testing of a new Malaria vaccine.

If I get in, I'll be given three rounds of the vaccine (one a month for three months) and then in November I'll insert my arms into a feeding chamber with 200 Malaria infected mosquitoes for five minutes. I then spend a week at a hotel, and then get cured.

Now, some people might be worried about the whole 'contracting malaria' part, but that's not what worries me. What's the real problem is the prospect of having 200 mosquito bites all up and down my arms. That just seems really, REALLY itchy.

Granted for $5,000 I can endure a few days of calamine and self-restraint, but in any case, I am not looking forward to that feeding frenzy...