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Painless Skin Patch Could Deliver Vaccines to Kids

April 30, 2024

Via: Drugs.com
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Kids who don’t like vaccination shots might soon have an alternative in a painless skin patch, researchers say.

More than 90% of 190 Gambian infants were protected from measles and all were protected from rubella after receiving a single vaccine dose through the patch, early trial results show.

The patch contains an array of microscopic needles that painlessly penetrate the skin and deliver the vaccine, researchers said.

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