Needle-free, inhalant powder measles vaccine could save thousands of lives

Sunday, August 16, 2009 - 17:21 in Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2009 -- The first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles is moving toward clinical trials next year in India, where the disease still sickens millions of infants and children and kills almost 200,000 annually, according to a report presented here today at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

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