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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[–] [S] 181 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Antivaxxers now pro-abortion to avoid forced ultrasound vaccinations.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    As interesting as that would be to happen, in reality, there's just going to be a bunch more people going without pre natal care.

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  • [–] 166 points 2 years ago (33 children)

    While this is awesome, I can already imagine anti-vaxxers are now deathly afraid of ultrasounds lol

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    Brace yourselves! Vaccination with sound conspiracies coming in!

    “The IRS called, they vaccinated me trough my phone in my ear!!?”

    “Mass vaccinations trough radio!!?”

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    [–] 114 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    I think that's the basic premise of the Star Trek hypospray. Pressure pushing in medicine rather than a needle.

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  • [–] 81 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Actual hyposprays have been around since the 60's. They are, by all account, quite painful and ironically not very hygienic.

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

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    My favorite anecdote, though not necessarily mine, about jet inoculation comes from the army. They had long lines of men to immunize and little time to do it. Walk up, hold still, hear the click, feel the water pierce you, walk away sore. However, if anyone moved even slightly during the process, the needle of water becomes a knife, slicing their shoulder open. It was not a well thought out mechanism.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    A lot slower, though. Article says it takes a minute and a half.

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  • [–] 101 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    In other news, conservatives have introduced a bill to outlaw ultrasound machines.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Since vaginal ultrasound is how they detect a "fetal heartbeat" at 6 weeks (the heart isn't yet formed or pushing any blood, but there's an electronic pulse) at which point abortion is illegal in many states, that might be a good thing.

    Although, as ultrasound is also how my overdue fetus was diagnosed with the umbilical cord wrapped 3x around the neck, leading to a quick C-section and healthy baby, I would rather keep the ultrasound machines and lose the lunatics.

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Great, a new thing for the lunatics to rant about.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I was gonna say oh now they are gonna say that's what the 5g towers are REALLY for 🙄🙄🙄

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And here come the conspiracy theories...

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I should patent a long range dart gun for vaccinating morons.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hyposprays are finally here!!!!!

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

    History proves we do the cheapest, easiest, and fastest. So allow me to shit all over this idea...

    • This is slow at 1.5 mins vs a needle takes about 5 secs.
    • Takes skill to operate an ultrasound machine and probably training to get a consistent dose vs pull needle to this line and jab in arm to know you got it all in there.
    • Every Rite Aid and CVS would need an ultrasound machine vs here are these cheap disposable needles that require no power or maintenance.

    Sure they might develop it faster or make a new more portable thing. But that's going to take a long long time when no one gives a shit to invest money in a new thing when needles work.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    We are one step closer to hypo sprays from Star Trek. I don't like needles so this will be really neat to see in mass adoption.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    I'm diabetic. This would be awesome!!

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (32 children)

    Sitting for a minute and a half, not including prep and cleanup, or just getting stabbed a little. shrug

    Edit: To save the next half dozen people exclaiming "needles!" the trouble. I would refine my point to, "great to have the option but I imagine it as being more of a fallback than the beginning of a new era".

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I knew it, the govment are poisoning us with their 5G waves!

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    few inches closer to Star Trek

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    So, now antivax mothers can't get ultrasound anymore while they're pregnant?

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Sweet, now they can charge me $1k for a shot and not use a needle.

    Last time I got an ultrasound the hospital charged me $2k. Wanted to confirm nothing was wrong with my kidneys. Turns out I was all good, but now I have an expensive bill to deal with...

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    If they can do this for insulin which sounds like it's the same this is a game changer

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    I guess it's interesting but this seems to have minimal use case. For those with reactions to injections and such it's useful, but it seems much easier to use a needle in most cases. Also that article claims that it "doesn't damage the skin", but I don't see why a vaccine would cause any meaningful damage to the skin in the first place.

    Edit: Okay I'm seeing now how this would be useful for more frequent injections like insulin and such if it can be used like that.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Vaccines just vibing their way into your body

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's how the five gee gets ya!

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