An introvert's dream? Flu camps that offer £4,400 to spend two weeks alone

You can earn £4,000 for lying in bed for two weeks in a swanky room, with access to free WiFi and food delivered to your door. So say enthusiastic "flu camp" volunteers, who've been recommending the experience on social media.

Obviously, you have to get the flu, too. Volunteers at these clinical trial camps are infected with the virus and then given the trial treatment or a placebo, and monitored over a fortnight to see how their body responds. But is being a human lab rat and spending all that time alone in a room as easy as it sounds?

A lot of introspection and a lack of fresh air

"Being deliberately infected with a virus may sound scary", said Vice , but firms like hVIVO, which runs FluCamp, say they only recruit people whose health records show that getting the illness is unlikely