A law student has infected herself with typhoid for £2,900.

Sian Rogers, who is studying law at Oxford Brookes, drank an infected cocktail of bicarbonate of soda, water and bacteria as part of a clinical trial carried out by the Oxford Vaccine Group. Over the next 12 months she will be used to test out one of three new vaccines for the fever.

Rogers wrote on student website The Tab that she "started feeling woozy" a week after being infected. The following morning she said she "definitely wasn't going to make it to Equity and Trusts", and spent the next seven days in bed "catching up on Netflix and sleep with a cocktail of drugs". Which means the only part of her experience which wasn't exactly like a normal law student's life was taking a taxi to hospital every morning "so they could make sure I wasn’t dying".

Before, during, after

Last year the 22-year-old trialled an anti-Ebola drug and was injected with a dead form of the disease. She said it was "actually pretty fun", and that clinical trials were "a really easy way to get money without working too hard". As typhoid symptoms include weakness, abdominal pain, constipation, headaches, diarrhoea and vomiting, Rogers should also gain a valuable insight into a career in corporate law.

The third year student will be told which vaccine she has been receiving next January, if she's still around.