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Want cash? Volunteer for a dose of malaria parasite, says Kemri amid ethical queries

Kenya Medical Research Institute is offering up to Sh48,000 to volunteers for dose of the Malaria parasite. [File, Standard]

Scientists at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) are offering up to Sh48,000 to volunteers who agree to be infected with malaria.

And this comes even as another study warned of moral and ethical issues around infecting healthy people with a potentially harmful organism for money.

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