In a message dated 2/1/02 7:17:21 AM Pacific Standard Time, imnews@NEWSBUREAU.INFOINC.COM writes:

 

“Patch for Vaccines: Scientists Are Close to Ending Patients’

Fear of Jabs”

Daily Record (UK) (www.dailyrecord.co.uk) (01/31/02) P. 34

As part of an effort to alleviate patients’ fear of needles, flu, malaria, and hepatitis vaccines could soon be available through nicotine patch-style plasters, as a nasal spray, or by capsule, according to Datamonitor.  Using the new vaccine forms, patients might eventually even be able to vaccinate themselves.

 

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