Needle-free vaccines may cause more harm than good
Main Category: Public HealthArticle Date: 06 Jan 2004 - 0:00 PDT
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Australia - Researchers at Queensland's James Cook University have found evidence that needle free vaccines being trialled in the United States may cause more harm than good.
Professor Alan Baxter says the onset of auto immune diseases accelerated when the patches were tested on mice.
This can lead to inflammation of the pancreas or brain.
He says while the skin patches, similar to those used to break nicotine addiction, are still being trialled there are real dangers.
'The real concern is in the normal vaccinated population, which is small children, who have quite a significant risk these days of development of type one diabetes,' he said.
'A wide spread vaccine program that involves such patches could have very significant mortality or morbidity.'
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