<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1069421d-466d-40ae-9244-a7326e2d4bfd/98AF4EEC-D3D9-405E-A004-A49D4B2D1B17/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.baltimoresun.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story"><SPAN class="toolSet"> <DIV class="byline"> <SPAN class="byline">By Stephanie Desmon </SPAN></DIV></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story">August 20, 2009</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story">So why, exactly, was the 13-year-old Anne Arundel County boy sitting in his Annapolis pediatrician's office yesterday, his orange T-shirt rolled up to his shoulder as a nurse first took blood from his arm and then gave him a shot he didn't need to get?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story">Hunter was pediatric volunteer No.1 of an expected 600 nationwide for an experimental <A id="HEDAR00000154" title="Vaccines" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/health/preventative-medicine/vaccines-HEDAR00000154.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">vaccine</A> against the <A id="HEDAI0000067" title="Swine Flu" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/health/diseases/swine-flu-HEDAI0000067.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">H1N1</A> <A id="HEDAI0000047" title="Flu" href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/health/diseases/flu-HEDAI0000047.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">influenza</A> virus,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story">But before a mass vaccination can be rolled out - one that could involve hundreds of millions of inoculations - hundreds of adults and children have volunteered for clinical trials</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story">Older children will have their blood drawn over five separate visits. For their trouble, the children will receive $40 Target gift cards at each visit - not a small carrot, several said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story"> "Some people have to be guinea pigs."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story"> to assess whether there are any safety issues or reactions to these vaccinations,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-md.hs.flu20aug20,0,4761044.story">the government wants to know how to use this best come October."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/98AF4EEC-D3D9-405E-A004-A49D4B2D1B17/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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