"Doctors Develop Nasal Spray Measles Vaccine"

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Doctors Develop Nasal Spray Measles Vaccine
Press Association (UK);
Woodcock, Andrew

[03/08/2002]

 

Mexican researchers have come up with a way to administer the measles vaccine without an injection. Using their method, an aerosol form of the vaccine is inhaled in 30 seconds by a child wearing a breathing mask. The researchers, who will soon present their findings to the World Health Organization, said the aerosol vaccine has been tested on 2,000 children; however, the results have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

 
     
 

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