At the moment the method of most vaccinations is with a medium gauge needle, a nurse who has no idea where the human vascular system puts its main channels and a cold jar of some attenuated virus in a sterile solution, from a special fridge.

UBCo Medical have come up with a stapler that covers off the multiple steps in a simple process.

The vaccine is loaded into the shank of a hollow wire staple with a reservoir bulge in the middle.

Patient is weighed, then dosage calculated.
Appropriate dosage strip/s is/are removed from fridge.
Appropriate dosage strip/s is/are loaded into stapler.
(Dosages of multiple medication may be ganged together, as required)
Nurse / orderly swabs injection site to disinfect and locally anaesthetise.
Nurse / orderly presses stapler to skin, firmly.
Stapler handle is depressed, two hollow fangs are punched into the patient's skin.
The hammer of the stapler presses the reservoir empty, into patient.
Empty, deformed staple is extracted and pushed into a disposable sharps container.
Repeat as required, until dosage is complete.
Check stapler is empty, disinfect.

Next patient, please!
-- UnaBubba, May 31 2012

Possibly, but then you have to start a rat breeding program, to feed them. That means sterile, genetically modified rats. Then you have to set up a sterile, genetically modified food breeding program for the rats...

It's a bigger project than The Island of Dr Moreau.
-- UnaBubba, May 31 2012


I try to avoid getting bitten by snakes. There's a primal fear of them in most people's hypothalamus, I think.
-- UnaBubba, May 31 2012


// genetically modify snakes to do this //

[bigsleep], this is amazing idea. I always wanted to experience what it is like to be bitten by a snake. I would really love to try such a vaccinating snake...
-- Inyuki, May 31 2012


Separate post for vaccinating snakes please.
-- rcarty, May 31 2012



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