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| Very Advanced Vaccination Gun |
| 2005-12-18 |
| Needles hurt. Worse, they can spread disease. PowderMed's new vaccine gun, the PMED, requires no sharps. The flashlight-shaped device relies on pressurized helium to shoot microscopic DNA vaccine particles just below the skin's surface at 1,500 miles an hour. The shot is painless because it hits just above nerve endings, where immunity-producing cells gather in large numbers. As a result, the PMED requires one thousandth the dose of a needle injection; a major cost savings. And the powders don't need a fridge, so they're easier to store and transport. Vaccine powders for influenza and hepatitis are in the works. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #5 LOL Frank..Ima gonna sic a cad program on you! |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-12-18 15:52 |
| #4 I can just see "vaccine-gun" fights in the lab, just like carpenters with nail guns :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-12-18 12:11 |
| #3 Yep, Navy used them in '63. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-12-18 10:07 |
| #2 Very Advanced Vaccination Gun history revisited. I know some of us youngsters remember lining up for pneumatic jet injections. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-12-18 05:51 |
| #1 One Thousand Five Hundred miles per hour? The vaccine and the vaccinee could prolly obtain Low Earth Orbit at that velocity... Aiieeeeeeee! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-12-18 00:05 |