TIL that during the 1918 flu pandemic, 62 Boston prisoners volunteered to be injected with infected tissue and sprayed with infectious aerosols with a promise of release if they survived. All of the prisoners lived, but the ward doctor died soon after.

http://losangeles.legalexaminer.com/miscellaneous/a-short-history-of-the-great-swine-flu-epidemic/



Submitted February 17, 2015 at 08:50PM by adamvideo1 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2w75zn/til_that_during_the_1918_flu_pandemic_62_boston/