Reuters
The approach does not work for those most at risk from influenza -- people over 60 -- but could be used to vaccinate healthier adults who care for high-risk people and do not wish to infect them, the researchers said.
It also hurts less.
"We found that we can give lower doses of vaccine, 40 percent of the full dose, if we gave the vaccine not as a shot into the muscle, but if we gave the shot 'intradermally' between the layers of the skin," said Dr. Robert Belshe of St. Louis University in Missouri, who led the study.
More...
|
