The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted the Biotech company Vaxxas Pty. Ltd. of Australia a worldwide license to a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) antigen known as DS2. The license will allow for the firm to create the first needle-free and room-temperature stable RSV vaccine using a novel and “cutting edge” high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP). The DS2 antigen was developed at the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center and is designed to elicit a stronger and durable immune response than the currently approved DS-Cav1.1
Vaxxas’ HD-MAP technology is a needle-free vaccine consisting of thousands of tiny projections on a small patch. Each of the micro projections is coated with a dried vaccine formulation. The patch is applied to the skin then delivers the vaccine to immune cells located just beneath the skin’s surface.
The needle-free vaccine platform has gone through five Phase I clinical trials including a second-generation COVID-19 biologic candidate, as well as microarray versions of vaccines for influenza, measles, and rubella. Vaxxas plans to advance its HD-MAP RSV vaccine to a Phase I clinical study after completing preclinical development.1
Goal of Needle-Free Vaccine Developers is Increased Uptake and Accessibility
Developers of needle-free vaccines such as HD-MAP believe the skin patch delivery system could lead to more people accepting vaccines. The plan is for vaccines to be delivered directly to homes, workplaces, and schools and for people to administer the patch vaccines to themselves, which would lead to increased vaccine uptake and accessibility.2
Gates Foundation, U.S. Government Grant Millions to Accelerate Needle-Free Vaccine Development
In November of 2023, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation granted $23.6 million to the Micron Biomedical, Inc. of Atlanta to fund the first ever mass production of needle-free vaccine technology. The company is developing a microarray version of the measles-rubella vaccine indicated for children as young as nine months old once it is approved following additional clinical studies.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientist James Goodson, the technology “could help overcome some of the most substantial barriers to eradicating measles and rubella globally.” Micron says that its microarray technology “allows a community health worker to vaccinate a child within minutes by applying the technology to the skin and pressing a button that confirms administration.”3
U.S. health agencies like the CDC and NIH, along with the Department of Defense (DoD) have also granted money to various developers of needle-free vaccines. In 2023, the NIH gave two separate $3 million grants to Orlance, Inc. of Seattle and DoD granted $5.5 million to Lumen Bioscience, Inc. also of Seattle.3
In May of 2023, Micron announced successful phase one and two data from the first-ever clinical trial of MAP technology in Gambian children, including infants as young as nine months old.4
Officials at the Vaccine Alliance Gavi believe the COVID pandemic “reinvigorated interest and investment in the MAP technology,” seemingly fueling funding, urgency, and fast tracking of the new needle free vaccine technology.3
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Click here to view References:1 Business Wire. Vaxxas licenses next-generation vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from the United Stations National Institutes of Health (NIH). Oct. 28, 2024.
2 Synapse. Vaxxas acquires next-gen RSV vaccine from NIH. Nov. 1, 2024
3 Cáceres M. Needle-free vaccines pushed by Gates Foundation, U.S. government. The Vaccine Reaction Dec. 4, 2023.
4 Rigby J. No more needles? Gates Foundation funds patch-style vaccine technology. Reuters Nov. 16, 2023.
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Why would anyone consider this? It’s not the needle, it’s the chemical/biological contents as well as the failure to test for safety, along with other objections.
I agree with you 100% although I hate needles.
Quote: Developers of needle-free vaccines such as HD-MAP believe the skin patch delivery system could lead to more people accepting vaccines. The plan is for vaccines to be delivered directly to homes, workplaces, and schools and for people to administer the patch vaccines to themselves, which would lead to increased vaccine uptake and accessibility.
This is so GD devious, the people pushing this should be stopped and prohibited from pursuing this technology. The room for abuse to force and trick people into accepting something they may not want, getting more than is even remotely reasonably safe with multiple and accidental exposure incidents, for anyone and their mother to deliver this substance to literally anyone else; risks too incredible to accurately detail. This is a razor in a candy bar times ten billion.
Article quote: designed to elicit a stronger and durable immune response than the currently approved DS-Cav1.1/ Response: So the first one did not work? Why in the hell would anyone give them more money to come up with a second? Fail and fail again, profit more. That’s the motto of vaccination developers, keep the new products moving. A century of ‘vaccine development’ and they still can’t come up with a lasting and affordable solution? Who’s still buying this?
Article quote: Vaxxas’ HD-MAP technology is a needle-free vaccine consisting of thousands of tiny projections on a small patch. / Response: Tiny projections? Like micro shards of glass or some similar polymer or resin in a shattered state? Like brushing against a cactus with a thousand micro needles? Like rubbing crushed glass into your skin? When was the last time any sane person on the planet thought that putting ‘thousands of tiny projections’ into their body was a practice conducive to better health?
I’ve heard of stupid but one has to be really far out there to want this product on purpose. What happens when you have this on your hand than shake someone elses hand? Or on your arm and brush against someone? What exactly are the tiny needles made from? Do they transfer to clothing and other surfaces? Do they fall out later or become incorporated into the body? Do they process? If so how? I’m getting standing in concentration camp lines while workers press this device on everyones arm as they pass through type of vibes. My money is on the immediate abuse of this technology by drug addicts whom would prefer to coat the ‘tiny projections’ with something else… The long term abuse by for profit medical institutions will likely be far worse.
You can not inject health. Does not matter what type of injection device you are using. You can not inject health. Injecting profits into a dying medial industrial state system with completely unnecessary and dangerous technology is more accurate. Here it is; we are getting closer. Soon those proprietary coated micro projections will be aerosolized and all you’ll have to do is breath them in from an overhead mist delivery system or consume them as they reside on your food, touch one on a public area surface. Instant delivery with instant uptake. No patient concent necessary.
why would the Dod be involved?? sinister