Vaccination via nose drops instead of needles
Thursday, January 27 PhD Student Bram Slutter got promoted on his PhD Thesis ‘Challenges and opportunities in nasal subunit vaccination; mechanistic studies Using ovalbumin as a model antigen’. Vaccination is a very good way to prevent diseases in humans and animals and even to exterminate diseases completely. Yet there are drawbacks to vaccination using a needle. The sting hurts so people don’t show up, there are trained people needed to administer the vaccine and reuse of needles can lead to the spread of diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS. Thursday, January 27 PhD Student Bram Slutter got promoted on his PhD Thesis ‘Challenges and opportunities in nasal subunit vaccination; mechanistic studies Using ovalbumin as a model antigen’. Vaccination is a very good way to prevent diseases in humans and animals and even to exterminate diseases completely. Yet there are drawbacks to vaccination using a needle. The sting hurts so people don’t show up, there are trained people needed to administer the vaccine and reuse of needles can lead to the spread of diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS.
Nasal vaccination is a solution to this problem. A nasal vaccine can be administered without needles (a nasal spray or drop). Moreover, it is expected that nasal vaccines provide better protection against viruses or bacteria that enter our body through the nose, beceause a nasal vaccine teaches our immune system to remove germs and virusses (in the nose or lungs) at an early stage.
