Tuesday, July 11

Needle-free avian flu vaccine - new genetic technology

British vaccine maker PowderMed Ltd. could soon become the first company to sell a needle-free H5N1 vaccine for humans. The new vaccine is made using a technology that is entirely different from the conventional flu vaccines. PowderMed chose instead a genetic technology where fragments of the deadly H5N1 virus are enclosed in tiny gold particles.

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