Goodbye Needle, Hello Vaccine Smoothie

[Mesogen]

Maybe this will allay some people's fear of contaminated vaccines?

Nah, probably not.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-gnh031709.php

This new generation vaccine has big benefits beyond eliminating the "Ouch!" factor. Delivering the vaccine to the gut -- rather than injecting it into a muscle -- harnesses the full power of the body's primary immune force, which is located in the small intestine.

"This is potentially a great advance in the way we give vaccines to people," said Mansour Mohamadzadeh, the lead author and an associate professor of medicine in gastroenterology at the Feinberg School.

"You swallow the vaccine, and the bacteria colonize your intestine and start to produce the vaccine in your gut," Mohamadzadeh said. "Then it's quickly dispatched throughout your body. If you can activate the immune system in your gut, you get a much more powerful immune response than by injecting it. The pathogenic bacteria will be eliminated faster."

Nice huh?

[tmosley]

Interesting. Thanks for the story.

[orafi]

vaccinations in our water supplies? hyuck yuck

[tmosley]

vaccinations in our water supplies? hyuck yuck

You deserve a bunchies, but I don't have one to give.

[heavenlyboy34]

You deserve a bunchies, but I don't have one to give.

I've got you covered.

[orafi]

You deserve a bunchies, but I don't have one to give.

Bunchies doesn't exist

[kathy88]

They should put it in Kool Aid.

[Working Poor]

I wonder if they will still have mercury so we can keep having the autism problem as well