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Alternatives to syringe-injected vaccines, of course, aren't new. In 1960, Aaron Ismach patented the Jet Injector, which uses high pressure to shoot a narrow stream of the vaccine fluid straight into the skin, for use in mass smallpox vaccinations -- although the process was not exactly painless. The new microneedle patch would benefit from the same advantages as the Jet Injector -- less training would be required to administer and more people could be vaccinated in a given time -- but it also shows promise as the most efficient delivery system.
The researchers tested the patch with flu vaccine on mice alongside another group inoculated via syringe; three months later, after being exposed to influenza, the patch mice showed an improved immunological response over the syringe group. According to the researchers, the skin is the optimal place for delivering a vaccine (as opposed to intramuscularly) since it contains an abundance of cells that trigger the immune response to the vaccine.
Don't expect, though, to pick up a patch in the drugstore any time soon. Besides the fact that the patches have not yet entered into human clinical trials, we have to imagine that they'll be treated as any other prescription and require a doctor's scrawl. Still, it's great news for those afraid of needles (who isn't?), and especially for anyone whose parents bought in to Andrew Wakefield's insanity about vaccination causing autism. In reality, vaccines cause your child not to die. [From: WebMD]
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Subscribe to commentseJul 21st 2010 4:41PM
Quote: " and especially for anyone whose parents bought in to Andrew Wakefield's insanity about vaccination causing autism. In reality, vaccines cause your child not to die. [From: WebMD]"
I have to say, that is low. At least the man listed to what thousands of parents had to say, parents that found their concerns and queries turned away from the doctors who administered the vaccines. My son received a brain injury from a vaccine that's been pulled off the market. He now has symptoms in line with autism. Vaccines are NOT SAFE FOR EVERYONE! There are safe schedule alternatives while still getting the vaccines. In reality, there are several inherint risks associated with vaccines, you are rolling the dice, taking a chance that something won't happen to you or your child, it'll be fine. So what if a 100,000 kids have an adverse reaction, yours didn't. You Mr. Zuras, are a truely insensitive idiot, or a terrible paid spokesman.
19th holeJul 21st 2010 4:53PM
"In reality, vaccines cause your child not to die."
Vaccines cause brain damages, strokes, paralysis, they cause the very disease they are meant to protect against (the only cases of polio outbreaks in the past 20 years have been caused by the polio vaccine), seizures, loss of speech, loss of cognitive abilities, encephalitis, and of course some vaccines can cause death. It's all right there on the warning labels.
Wakefield isnt the only scientist claiming a causation and link to autism, yet he is the most targeted for claiming that children with autism have higher incidents of gut problems than average and that the measles virus from the vaccines have been detected in the bowels of children with autism.