Traveler's Trots Prevention: Try While Traveling, Get Paid
Monday December 22, 2008
Interesting opportunity to travel free to Mexico or Guatemala (take note if you've been wanting to study Spanish in either country): help pharmaceutical company Iomai test the effectiveness of a diarrhea drug and get the travel paid for (up to $1500 in travel bucks). 
You: must travel between May '09 and June '10, must check in at a clinic during at least seven days of travel (and the clinics are near traditional language school locales, like Mexico's Guanajuato), and must be willing to be a guinea pig, among a few other criteria. Them: testing a skin patch which may reduce effects of diarrhea from E-coli (that would be one of the culprits of those cramp-causing trots called ETEC [traveler's diarrhea, Montezuma's revenge, the squirts] that can ruin a trip quicker than you can find the Immodium), and have been testing this drug for a while (we reported on the study in '05 and again in '06).
You may be testing a placebo or the actual real deal (and you may not get diarrhea while traveling, anyway -- we take a few simple precautions and almost never get sick while traveling, ourselves). If you do fall prey to the pesky parasites -- well, you may save yourself a few bucks on Pepto-type solutions (plugging up isn't a good solution to traveler's trots, anyway) or 922 trips to the baņo. Learn more:
You: must travel between May '09 and June '10, must check in at a clinic during at least seven days of travel (and the clinics are near traditional language school locales, like Mexico's Guanajuato), and must be willing to be a guinea pig, among a few other criteria. Them: testing a skin patch which may reduce effects of diarrhea from E-coli (that would be one of the culprits of those cramp-causing trots called ETEC [traveler's diarrhea, Montezuma's revenge, the squirts] that can ruin a trip quicker than you can find the Immodium), and have been testing this drug for a while (we reported on the study in '05 and again in '06).
You may be testing a placebo or the actual real deal (and you may not get diarrhea while traveling, anyway -- we take a few simple precautions and almost never get sick while traveling, ourselves). If you do fall prey to the pesky parasites -- well, you may save yourself a few bucks on Pepto-type solutions (plugging up isn't a good solution to traveler's trots, anyway) or 922 trips to the baņo. Learn more:
- Traveler's Diarrhea Study (everything you need to know)
- Mexico Travel for Backpackers and Beginners
- Language School in Guanajuato
- Language Schools in San Miguel de Allende
- Language Schools in Guatemala
- Backpacker Travel in Central America
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