Vets recommending dog flu vaccine as cases rise in Minnesota - Story stat : Fox 9

Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine tracks dog flu cases. - According to one report, Minnesota currently has the second largest number of cases of dog flu in the country. "Just like with people, it is the young and old and immune-compromised patients that have the most trouble with it," said Dr. Hershey. Dr. Hershey has spoken to the lab she works with closely and a vaccine company, which tell her the number of Minnesota cases are even higher and primarily in Wright County. Dr. Hershey says the virus spreads quick and easily because it's airborne and the first signs to look for are a coughs and sneezing.




One group received a flu vaccine via the patch, administered by a health care worker; another received a flu vaccine via a traditional flu shot; another group received a placebo microneedle patch, administered by a health care worker; the fourth group used the patch to self-administer a flu vaccine. When comparing the immune responses to the patch and traditional flu shot among the participants, the researchers found similar results. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends an annual flu vaccine for everyone 6 months and older. Mark Prausnitz, a Georgia Tech Regents professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, holds a microneedle vaccine patch containing needles that dissolve into the skin. Instead of receiving a flu vaccine with the typical prick of a syringe, the petite patch comes equipped with 100 microneedles that deliver a vaccine when pressed onto your arm.

New type of flu vaccine - Story

Scientists at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology hope to have the flu vaccine patch available within 5 years. Researchers are testing a new way to deliver the flu vaccine. Researchers say the vaccine patch can be stored and distributed without being refrigerated. It's a band-aid like patch that contains microscopic needles to deliver the vaccine and dissolve. Microneedle patches are also being developed for other vaccines like measles, rubella and polio


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