Ich wusste nicht, dass man Impfungen anstatt mit einer Spritze, vor der nahezu ein Viertel der (US-) Bevölkerung Angst hat, theoretisch auch mittels Seide (!) durchführen könnte.
The invention of the hypodermic needle in 1844 brought major benefits to the practice of medicine, but ran headlong into an unexpected quirk of human nature. It turns out that millions of people feel an instinctive horror at the thought of receiving an injection […] A company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, called Vaxess Technologies […] is testing a skin patch covered in dozens of microneedles made of silk protein and infused with influenza vaccine. Each needle is barely visible to the naked eye and just long enough to pierce the outer layer of skin. A user sticks the patch on his arm, waits five minutes, then throws it away. Left behind are the silk microneedles, which painlessly dissolve over the next two weeks, releasing the vaccine all the while.
Hiawatha Bray
Meine Güte! Hätten wir uns all das Drama vielleicht erspart, wenn es einfach nur ein Pflaster gewesen wäre?