A rotavirus vaccine with no needle and no fridge just took its next step toward children who need it most

Rotavirus is the leading cause of deadly diarrhoea in children under five, claiming about 200,000 young lives a year — and today's oral vaccines work least well exactly where the danger is greatest. In Atlanta, Micron Biomedical has won a federal contract to advance a different idea, co-developed with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: a live vaccine delivered through the skin on a tiny dissolving patch — no needle, no sharps waste, and no cold chain of refrigerators to reach remote clinics. An earlier first-in-human study of a skin-delivered vaccine began this year. The goal is plain: a vaccine that can travel as far as the children it protects.

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