Yale Medicine School: Nasal Vaccination May Protect Against Respiratory Viruses Better Than Injected Vaccines
December 22, 2021
December 22, 2021
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 22 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news:
A Yale School of Medicine research team led by Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, recently found that local vaccines administered with a nasal spray were more effective in protecting mice against influenza than vaccines that are injected into the muscle, the way standard flu shots are done. Iwasaki, who is Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and professor of molecular, cellular, and developm . . .
A Yale School of Medicine research team led by Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, recently found that local vaccines administered with a nasal spray were more effective in protecting mice against influenza than vaccines that are injected into the muscle, the way standard flu shots are done. Iwasaki, who is Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology and professor of molecular, cellular, and developm . . .