Dr Michael Mosley refused to be willingly infected with Coronavirus despite previously having swallowed tapeworm eggs. As part of a trailblazing study, which examined how Covid-19 works in our bodies, 36 healthy young adults signed up to catch the virus on purpose.
Explaining his decision not to get involved in the study, Dr Mosley wrote in the Daily Mail: "I have taken part in some unpleasant and sometimes painful experiments myself, such as deliberately swallowing tapeworm eggs so that scientists at Liverpool University could study the impact of the worm on my immune system."
While it sounds revolting, Dr Mosley says: "Apart from the initial repugnance when swallowing the eggs, I barely noticed they were there until I saw pictures from a pill camera I swallowed months later."
