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Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid mixture to the skin of mice and exposed it to ultrasound – like that used for sonograms – for about a minute and a half.

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[–] Gigan 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is more unsettling than a needle to me.

[–] deranger 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

What do you think about jet injectors?

a narrow, high-pressure stream of liquid penetrates the outermost layer of the skin to deliver medication to targeted underlying tissues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector

[–] takeda 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is what I was thinking when reading the title. That one supposedly was cool, because there was no needle, never seen one in action but I presume there also was no bleeding.

Yet we don't see them used today, apparently the biggest reason was that there was a splashback and retrograde follow and then patient's blood could end up contaminating the nozzle, so basically it was like using the same needle on multiple patients.

[–] buddhabound 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're not cool. They're fast and good for giving lots of shots in a situation where you need to get a lot of people in a hurry - especially if you're giving multiple vaccinations at the same time.

I got one of those used on me in basic training - a place where you need to vaccinate a few thousand people in about 30 minutes. Each one could do 4 shots at a time, and they had them in multiple configurations so you could get up to 4 in each arm for each "injection" station. We stepped through the line, and you got whatever shots you were missing in your records.

It hurts, like you could imagine a high pressure power washer with a needle-point burst with 4 heads blasting vaccines in your arms. It works, in the machine-like way the military works, and it is highly effective for mass vaccinations. So, I guess it makes it cool, but also it sucks like you'd expect 4-30 vaccines at once would suck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Grandpa told me about a guy in basic that jerked when they shot it, absolutely tore open his arm.